Subrah Iyar

Subrah S. Iyar (born June 11, 1957) is an entrepreneur. He co-founded and was CEO of web conferencing provider WebEx until its acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2007 for US $3.2 billion. He is an early investor in and an advisor to Zoom Communications.

Early life Subrah S. Iyar was born in Mumbai, and received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B). After graduation in 1982, he moved to the United States.

Career Beginning in 1983, he worked for 6 years for Apple Inc., where he was instrumental in creating the first OS licensing business in the Newton Group.

Iyar became an entrepreneur in 1996, when he founded WebEx in partnership with Min Zhu. The founding of the company was fueled by an interest in web conferencing. Min Zhu, a Stanford University-trained System Engineer had been struggling to develop a web-conferencing tool, when he met Iyer, who went into business together.

After a 6-year break spending time with his 2 daughters, in 2012, Iyar co-founded and became CEO of Moxo. Moxo is a digital client interaction platform that received funding from Cisco and KDDI from Japan.