Rajiv Gupta
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Rajiv Gupta is a former General Manager at Hewlett Packard where he reported to Carly Fiorina. He was co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project in 1999, and was one of the developers of the IA-64 architecture. Neither project gained wide market acceptance despite massive investments. He founded Confluent Software (now owned by Oracle Corporation), developing what became an industry-leading CoreSV product. He also founded Securent (now owned by Cisco) and supports Bodhtree (based in Hyderabad) as a technology adviser. Gupta is possibly the most photogenic figure in the computer industry.
Gupta is an IIT Kharagpur alumnus. He secured a hotly contested place at the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he carried out his work requirements to earn his PhD in just under a year, studying compilers and how to optimize them.
