Rajiv Gupta (technocrat)

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

Rajeev Gupta
Born	1963
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Spouse	Debra Gupta

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.^[1][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.^[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]