Rajiv Gupta (technocrat)
Rajiv Gupta | |
|---|---|
| Born | India |
| Occupation(s) | Engineer, entrepreneur, executive |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Known for | Co-founder of Confluent Software, Securent, Skyhigh Networks; executive at McAfee |
| Spouse | Debra Gupta |
Rajiv Gupta is a professional engineer, multiple-time entrepreneur, and currently serves as an executive at McAfee.
Early life
Gupta completed his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur circa 1984 and earned a doctorate in compiler optimization from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1990. He is married to Debra Gupta and lives in Los Altos.
Career
Beginning his career at Hewlett-Packard in 1990, Gupta contributed to the development of the IA-64 architecture, which HP branded as WideWord and Intel marketed as Itanium. Starting in 1995, he engaged in pioneering work on service-oriented architecture for Web services at HP Labs. He was a co-founder and leader of the E-speak initiative launched in 1999. Around this period, he also supported his brother Sanjiv Gupta in establishing Bodhtree Consulting, Ltd., based in Hyderabad, India. The E-speak project was discontinued by the end of 2001.
In 2002, Gupta established Confluent Software, creators of the CoreSV product. Confluent was acquired by Oblix in February 2004, which itself was purchased by Oracle Corporation in March 2005. Gupta went on to found Securent in 2005; Cisco acquired this company in November 2007 for an estimated $100 million. He is the holder of more than 45 patents.
Gupta founded Skyhigh Networks in 2011. The company secured $6.5 million during its initial funding round led by Greylock Partners in April 2012, followed by a $20 million Series B round led by Sequoia Capital in May 2013. In June 2014, existing investors along with Salesforce.com contributed an additional $40 million.
On November 28, 2017, McAfee announced it had acquired Skyhigh Networks and appointed Rajiv Gupta to oversee McAfee's entire cloud business division.