1. Samir Arora was born on November 5,1965 and is an Indian-American businessman and CEO of Sage Assist, a generative AI company, the former CEO or Kyro and founder of Sage Digital AI from 2016 to 2021, and the former CEO of Mode Media from 2003 to April 2016.
Samir Arora was CEO and chairman of the web design company NetObjects, Inc from 1995 to 2001 and at Apple Inc from 1982 to 1991.
Samir Arora was born in New Delhi, India to a family of Punjabi descent.
Samir Arora studied electrical and electronic engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science.
Samir Arora has an EMP from INSEAD, attended Executive Education at Harvard Business School, and holds a diploma in Sales and Marketing from the London Business School.
Samir Arora worked at Apple in Software and New Media from 1982 to 1991.
Samir Arora wrote a white paper called "Information Navigation: The Future of Computing" in late 1986 while working directly for the chairman and CEO of Apple,.
Samir Arora left Apple to found the spin-off Rae Technology from Apple.
From 1992 to 1995, Samir Arora was chairman and chief executive officer of Rae Technology.
In 1995 Samir Arora co-founded NetObjects, Inc and together with a design and development team including David Kleinberg, Clement Mok and his brother, Sal Arora, created NetObjects Fusion, one of the first Web design products that allowed Web sites to be designed, structured and created without programming.
From June 2003 to February 2004, Samir Arora served as chairman of the board of Tickle, Inc.
Samir Arora was the interim CEO of Glam Media from 2003 to 2005, and CEO from 2006 to 2016.
In July 2023, Samir Arora created SageAssist AI, a vertical generative AI company.
In July 2023, Samir Arora founded Kanza AI, a generative AI Domain LM company, and serves as its Founder and CEO.
Since February 2004, Samir Arora has been the Chairman of International Zen Therapy Institute, a 501 organization based in Honolulu, that was founded by Dub Leigh with Daihonzan Chozen-ji and currently serves as its President and is the Shike of IZII and Zentherapy and Soke, Founder of Yudo as a lay Rinzai Roshi, a successor in the Daihonzan Chozen-ji lineage of Dub Leigh and Tenshin Tanouye under the Tenryu-ji lineage of Omori Sogen.
Samir Arora was editor and publisher of the annual awards and book Foodie Top 100 Restaurants with contributing top food critics Patricia Wells, Ruth Reichl, Gael Greene, Masuhiro Yamamoto, Jonathan Gold, Bruno Verjus, Alexander Lobrano, Charles Campion, Vir Sanghvi, Aun Koh, Susumu Ohta, Kundo Koyama, Yuki Yamamura, Karen Brooks, Phil Vettel, Marie-Claude Lortie, Erika Lenkert and Diane Tapscott.