Rajiv Gupta (technocrat) explained

Rajeev Gupta
Birth Date:1963
Occupation:Entrepreneur
Spouse:Debra Gupta

Rajiv Gupta is an engineer, a repeat entrepreneur and currently an executive at McAfee.

Early life

Gupta earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur around 1984. He received his Ph.D. in compiler optimization from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1990.[1] He married a British woman, Debra and they have two children - Veda and Anya. He resides in Los Altos.[2]

Career

Gupta joined Hewlett-Packard in 1990, and developed the IA-64 architecture, which HP called WideWord and Intel marketed as Itanium.From 1995 he developed a client utility project at HP Labs, which was an early example of a service-oriented architecture for Web services.[3] [4] [5] He was co-creator and general manager of the E-speak project when it was announced in 1999.Around the same time, he supported his brother Sanjiv Gupta, to start Bodhtree Consulting, Ltd., in Hyderabad, India.[6] The E-speak technology was abandoned in late 2001.[7] [8] In 2002, Gupta founded Confluent Software, developing what became the CoreSV product. It was acquired by Oblix in February 2004,[9] which in turn was acquired by Oracle Corporation in March, 2005.[10] In 2005 he founded Securent, which was acquired by Cisco in November 2007 for an estimated $100 million.[11] He has more than 45 patents.

In 2011 Gupta founded Skyhigh Networks. The first round of financing was led by Greylock Partners in April, 2012, for about $6.5 million.[12] The company raised $20 million in May, 2013, led by Sequoia Capital.[13] Another investment of $40 million was announced in June, 2014, from existing investors and Salesforce.com.[14]

On November 28, 2017, McAfee announced it would acquire Skyhigh Networks and appoint Rajiv Gupta as the head of McAfee's entire cloud business.[15]

References

  1. Web site: Rajiv Gupta . Indians Abroad Biography . https://web.archive.org/web/20110903105618/http://www.indobase.com/indians-abroad/rajiv-gupta.html . September 3, 2011 . October 5, 2016 .
  2. Web site: Tech Guru Dreams Beyond Silicon Valley . Aseem Chhabra . August 16, 1999 . Rediff On The Net . October 5, 2016 .
  3. Web site: The Client Utility Architecture: The Precursor to E-speak . Alan H. Karp . Rajiv Gupta . Guillermo Rozas . Arindam Banerji . HP Technical Report HPL-2001-136 . June 1, 2001 . October 5, 2016 .
  4. Web site: Father of Web Services Publishes "Security in a SOA" Article . Press release . April 14, 2007 . October 5, 2016 .
  5. Web site: Security in a SOA . MicroServices Expo . Rajiv Gupta . April 14, 2007 . October 5, 2016 .
  6. Web site: Bodhtree featured in Channel World Fast track as a fast growing company . Radhika Nallayam . April 14, 2010 . Press release . October 5, 2016 .
  7. Web site: Lessons from E-speak . Alan H. Karp . HP Technical Report HPL-2004-150 . August 31, 2004 . October 5, 2016 . October 11, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081011220844/http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-150.pdf . dead .
  8. News: Straight talk on Web services . Charles Cooper . October 15, 2002 . CNET News . October 5, 2016 .
  9. News: Oblix makes Web services bid, buying Confluent . Info World . Stacy Cowley . February 4, 2004 . October 5, 2016 .
  10. News: Security Startups: In Focus With SkyHigh Networks CEO and Co-Founder Rajiv Gupta . Noa Bar-Yosef . Security Week . June 13, 2013 . October 5, 2016 .
  11. News: Cisco Acquires Securent for $100 Million . Paula Musich . eWeek . November 1, 2007 . October 5, 2016 .
  12. Web site: Announcing the Launch of Skyhigh Networks and Greylock's Investment . Asheem Chandna . Greylock Partners . February 25, 2013 . October 5, 2016 .
  13. News: Skyhigh Networks Raises $20M Series B To Find, Manage Cloud Services . Forbes . May 22, 2013 . Tomio Geron . October 5, 2016 .
  14. News: Sequoia and Greylock Lead $40 Million Round for Skyhigh Networks . June 23, 2014 . David Gelles . Deal Book . The New York Times . October 5, 2016.
  15. News: McAfee acquires cloud security startup Skyhigh Networks, last valued at $400M . November 28, 2017 . Ingrid Lunden . TechCrunch . November 29, 2017.

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