Dara Khosrowshahi

Dara Khosrowshahi, 48, was born on 28th May 1969 in Tehran, Iran to a wealthy Muslim family and grew up in a mansion on the family compound. He is the youngest of the 3 children of Lili and Asghar (Gary) Khosrowshahi.

 Khosrowshahi’s family escaped from Iran in 1978 just before the Islamic Revolution.  At that time, he was just nine years old. After coming to the United States, he was considered brilliant student and he excelled in academics, receiving a B.A. in electrical engineering from Brown University in 1991.

On 12th December he married Sydney Shapiro, former preschool teacher and actress. The couple is blessed with twin sons; Hayes Epic and Hugo Gubrit. Previous to this relationship he was married man. From his first marriage he has a son, Alex and a daughter, Chloe.

Dara initiated his career as an analyst in the year 1991 from Allen & Company, an investment bank. He left this company in the year 1998 to work for one of his former clients at the bank, Bank Diller.

Here, he was given title –senior vice president for strategic planning and then president and later as chief officer of IAC. In this capacity, he oversaw all financial matters of IAC and was directly involved in the expansion of IAC's travel portfolio through various acquisitions.

In June 2013, he received a Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year award from Ernst and Young.

In 2016, he was one of the highest paid CEOs in the United States. During his tenure as CEO of Expedia, "the gross value of its hotel and other travel bookings more than quadrupled and its pre-tax earnings more than doubled.

Khosrowshahi became the CEO of Uber in August 2017. His strong mind makeup and dedication has even promoted Uber to next height.

One the highest paid CEO on planet has an estimated net worth of $200 million. He has a huge mansion and lavishing lifestyle which he maintains with his jaw dropping salary.

Dara Khosrowshahi is active on social media with huge followers. He mostly uses Twitter to communicate and update his fans. He has 61k followers in Twitter making 286 Tweets.