Rajeev Gupta | |
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Born | 1963 |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Spouse | Debra Gupta |
Rajiv Gupta is an engineer, a repeat entrepreneur and currently an executive at McAfee.
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. [1] [2]
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. [1] 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. [10] [11] He has more than 45 patents. [1]
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]
Rajeev Gupta | |
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Born | 1963 |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Spouse | Debra Gupta |
Rajiv Gupta is an engineer, a repeat entrepreneur and currently an executive at McAfee.
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. [1] [2]
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. [1] 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. [10] [11] He has more than 45 patents. [1]
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]