Crazy cash comes as Mr Arora, President of SOFTBANK, was forced to resign: Masayoshi Son helpless-Softbank, Masayoshi Son-IT information
According to the Wall Street Journal, bowing to pressure from investors, SOFTBANK President nikeshi·aluola (Nikesh Arora) is about to step down, this marks the company's founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son pick the successor term to an abrupt end.
Masayoshi Son said, he continued to serve as CEO of the time will be longer than previously planned, Mr Arora was leaving to pursue other development. Two years ago, SOFTBANK Arora personally recruited to the company.
Masayoshi Son, 58 years old said: "I considered when I am 60 years of age to surrender my CEO position, but now I feel I was a bit too young to have the energy to continue my work. ”
Mr Arora said he will continue to serve as one of SOFTBANK's advisers. He said: "it gives me time to think about his next step. ”
Masayoshi Son, SOFTBANK's shareholders general meeting on Wednesday, Mr Arora will not be reappointed to his existing post of the Managing Director.
In 1981, Masayoshi Son, founder of SOFTBANK, started out as a software distributor. In 2006, the company acquired Vodafone Group's Japan operations, the company was renamed "SOFTBANK" and put it into Japan's third-largest mobile phone service provider. In 2013, the company acquired the United States telecom operator Sprint to achieve another transformation, but those efforts had not been very successful.
Joined SOFTBANK in the past two years, Mr Arora to start-up companies around the world invested nearly $ 4 billion, to looking for ways to drive future growth, innovative technology companies.
These investments can be like Masayoshi Son early Alibaba group and Yahoo Japan's massive return on investment, is now still too early to make judgments.
Surrounding these transactions, as well as their remuneration, Mr Arora has been criticized by shareholders, while some investors have questioned his qualifications. Mr Arora is one of the world's highest-paid executives in 2014, pay as much as $ 135 million in 2015, up to 73 million dollars.
Charges against an investor group to Mr Arora, SOFTBANK has established a Special Committee. Just yesterday, SOFTBANK said that the Special Committee's investigation found that investor group's allegations "had no legal basis."
The Special Committee was established in February this year, SOFTBANK independent members of the Board. Prior to this, the investor group had questioned SOFTBANK Arora past performance, and said he was currently facing a conflict of interest because he is also a consultant for a private equity investment firm.
Masayoshi Son, said on Tuesday that Mr Arora's downfall has nothing to do with these allegations.
SOFTBANK announced in March this year, the company is profitable, but its slow-growing domestic mobile business and rapid growth, but riskier business abroad split, which will be led by Mr Arora. Analysts said the move could release the value of the company's vast portfolio.
Masayoshi Son announced that SOFTBANK's Board Member luoen·feisheer (Ron Fisher), Baer Capital Partners founder aluoke·SAMA (Alok Sama) will replace Arora, leading the SOFTBANK's overseas investment activities.
In recent weeks, SOFTBANK has been crazy to sell assets to shore up its balance sheet. Their balance sheets saddled with $ 80 billion in debt, of which about one-third associated with the troubled Sprint.
Earlier this month, SOFTBANK announced the sale of $ 1 billion worth of company stock for sale, will reduce its stake from 32% to 27%. It also announced the sale of Japan most of the gaming company GungHo online entertainment shares, the deal amounted to 73 billion yen ($ 685 million).
The company said on Tuesday that it holds Finland game developer Supercell of the shares will be sold to a company, the deal valued at more than $ 10 billion of the Supercell.
Mr Arora, aged 48, at the same time as Softbank's chief operating officer, he was in this position is primarily responsible for the company's overseas business. He joined SOFTBANK in 2014, as head of the Silicon Valley investment in Internet and media sectors.
Prior to joining Softbank, Mr Arora has long served as Executive in Google, the Internet giant is responsible for all sales and customer operations, marketing and partnerships. At Google, he also served in several other positions, including Google's Vice President of European operations, responsible for Google in Europe, the Middle East and Africa business development and management. Prior to that, Mr Arora is the Chief Marketing Officer of t-mobile Europe.
疯狂套现之际，软银总裁阿罗拉被迫辞职：孙正义也无奈 - 软银,孙正义 - IT资讯
据《华尔街日报》报道，迫于投资者的压力，软银总裁尼科什·阿罗拉(Nikesh Arora)即将下台，这标志着该公司创始人兼首席执行官孙正义挑选的继任者的任期将戛然而止。
孙正义表示，他继续担任CEO的时间将比之前计划的要更长，阿罗拉将离职以谋求其它发展。两年前，孙正义亲自将阿罗拉招聘至公司。
现年58岁的孙正义称：“我曾考虑在我年满60周岁时交出我的CEO位置，但现在觉得我还是有点太年轻了，还有精力继续我的工作。”
阿罗拉称，他将继续担任软银的顾问之一。他表示：“这让我有时间去考虑自己下一步计划。”
孙正义称，在周三举行的软银股东大会上，阿罗拉将不会再次被任命为其现有总裁的职位。
1981年，孙正义创办了软银，开始是作为一家软件分销商。2006年，该公司收购了沃达丰集团的日本业务，将该公司重新命名为“软银”，并把它改造为日本第三大移动电话服务提供商。2013年该公司收购了美国电信运营商Sprint，以实现另一次转型，但这些努力一直不是很顺利。
自加入软银近两年来，阿罗拉向世界各地的初创公司投资了近40亿美元，以寻找能够驱动未来增长、有突破性的科技公司。
这些投资能否像孙正义早期对阿里巴巴集团和雅虎日本的投资一样带来巨额回报，现在做出判断还为时过早。
围绕这些交易，以及其薪酬问题，阿罗拉已经受到股东的批评；与此同时，一些投资者曾质疑他的任职资格。阿罗拉是世界上收入最高的公司高管之一，2014年的薪酬高达1.35亿美元，2015年达7300万美元。
针对一个投资者团体对阿罗拉的指控，软银成立了一个特别委员会。就在昨天，软银表示，该特别委员会调查发现，投资者团体的指控“没有法律依据”。
该特别委员会成立于今年2月，由软银董事会独立成员组成。在此之前，软银的投资者团体曾质疑阿罗拉以往的业绩，并称他担任现职面临着利益冲突，因为他还是一家私募股权投资公司的顾问。
孙正义周二表示，阿罗拉的下台与这些指控无关。
软银今年3月宣布，该公司将把其处于盈利、但增长缓慢的国内移动业务与快速增长、但风险较大的海外业务拆分，后者将由阿罗拉领导。分析师表示，此举有可能释放该公司庞大投资组合的价值。
孙正义宣布，软银董事会成员罗恩·费舍尔（Ron Fisher）、Baer Capital Partners创始人阿洛克·萨玛（Alok Sama）将取代阿罗拉，领导软银的海外投资活动。
最近几个星期，软银一直在疯狂出售资产，以支撑其资产负债表。其资产债务表背负着800亿美元的负息债务，其中约三分之一与陷入困境的Sprint有关。
本月早些时候，软银宣布出售价值10亿美元的阿里巴巴售股票，将其持有的阿里巴巴股份从32%减少至27%左右。它还宣布出售日本游戏公司GungHo在线娱乐的大部分股份，这笔交易金额为730亿日元（6.85亿美金）。
该公司周二表示，其持有芬兰游戏开发商Supercell的股份将出售给腾讯，该交易对Supercell的估值超过了100亿美元。
阿罗拉现年48岁，同时担任软银的首席运营官，他在这一职位上主要负责该公司的海外业务。他于2014年加入软银，作为硅谷互联网和媒体投资部门负责人。
在加入软银之前，阿罗拉曾长期在谷歌担任高管，负责该互联网巨头所有营收和客户运营以及营销和合作伙伴关系。在谷歌，他还担任过其它几个职位，包括谷歌欧洲运营副总裁，负责谷歌在欧洲、中东和非洲业务的发展和管理。在此之前，阿罗拉是T-Mobile欧洲的首席营销官。
