Born to an Indian Air Force officer, Arora completed his schooling from The Air Force School (Subroto Park), and went on to graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, BHU in Varanasi, India with a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering in 1989. He holds a degree from Boston College and an MBA from Northeastern University. He also holds the CFA designation in 1999.

Arora began his career at Fidelity Investments in 1992, holding a variety of finance and technology management positions, ultimately serving as vice president, Finance of Fidelity Technologies.

In 2000, Arora established T-Motion PLC, a company that “provides value-added services to the 3G Services of Deutsche Telekom.” A few years after, in 2002, T-Motion PLC merged with Deutsche Telekom.

From 2001 to 2004, he served as Chief Marketing Officer of the T-Mobile International Division of Deutsche Telekom AG. He was Chief Executive Officer and Founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002.

Arora joined Google in 2004. He held multiple senior operating leadership roles at Google, serving as vice president, Europe Operations from 2004 to 2007, President Europe, Middle East and Africa from 2007 to 2009, and President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development from 2009 to 2010. He was Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Google Inc. (Google) since January 2011 until July 2014.

Since 2007, Arora has also served as a senior advisor to Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm.

He left Google in July 2014 resigning from the post of Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer.