Rajiv Gupta (technocrat)

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.{{cite web |url= http://www.indobase.com/indians-abroad/rajiv-gupta.html |title= Rajiv Gupta |work= Indians Abroad Biography |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110903105618/http://www.indobase.com/indians-abroad/rajiv-gupta.html |archivedate= September 3, 2011 |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }} He married a British woman, Debra and they have two children - Veda and Anya. He resides in Los Altos.{{cite web |url= http://inwww.rediff.com/news/1999/aug/16us1.htm |title= Tech Guru Dreams Beyond Silicon Valley |author= Aseem Chhabra |date= August 16, 1999 |work= Rediff On The Net |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }}

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.{{Cite web |title= The Client Utility Architecture: The Precursor to E-speak |author1=Alan H. Karp |author2=Rajiv Gupta |author3=Guillermo Rozas |author4=Arindam Banerji |work= HP Technical Report HPL-2001-136 |date= June 1, 2001 |url= http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2001/HPL-2001-136.pdf |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }}{{cite web |url= http://soa.sys-con.com/node/361431 |title= Father of Web Services Publishes "Security in a SOA" Article |work= Press release |date= April 14, 2007 |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }}{{cite web |url= http://soa.sys-con.com/node/355645 |title= Security in a SOA |work= MicroServices Expo |author= Rajiv Gupta |date= April 14, 2007 |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }}

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.{{Cite web |title= Bodhtree featured in Channel World Fast track as a fast growing company |author= Radhika Nallayam |date= April 14, 2010 |work= Press release |url= http://www.bodhtree.com/blog/2010/05/04/bodhtree-featured-in-channel-world-fast-track-as-a-fast-growing-company/ |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }}

The E-speak technology was abandoned in late 2001.{{Cite web |title= Lessons from E-speak |author= Alan H. Karp |work= HP Technical Report HPL-2004-150 |date= August 31, 2004 |url= http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-150.pdf |accessdate= October 5, 2016 |archive-date= October 11, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081011220844/http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-150.pdf |url-status= dead }}{{Cite news |title= Straight talk on Web services |author= Charles Cooper |date= October 15, 2002 |work= CNET News |url= https://www.cnet.com/news/straight-talk-on-web-services/ |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }}

In 2002, Gupta founded Confluent Software, developing what became the CoreSV product. It was acquired by Oblix in February 2004,{{Cite news |title= Oblix makes Web services bid, buying Confluent |work= Info World |author= Stacy Cowley |date= February 4, 2004 |url= http://www.infoworld.com/article/2665890/application-development/oblix-makes-web-services-bid--buying-confluent.html |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }} which in turn was acquired by Oracle Corporation in March, 2005.{{Cite news |title= Security Startups: In Focus With SkyHigh Networks CEO and Co-Founder Rajiv Gupta |author= Noa Bar-Yosef |work= Security Week |date= June 13, 2013 |url= http://www.securityweek.com/security-startups-focus-skyhigh-networks-ceo-and-co-founder-rajiv-gupta |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }}

In 2005 he founded Securent, which was acquired by Cisco in November 2007 for an estimated $100 million.{{Cite news |title= Cisco Acquires Securent for $100 Million |author= Paula Musich |work= eWeek |date= November 1, 2007 |url= http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Cisco-Acquires-Securent-for-100-Million |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }}

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.{{Cite web |title= Announcing the Launch of Skyhigh Networks and Greylock's Investment |author= Asheem Chandna |publisher= Greylock Partners |date= February 25, 2013 |url= http://www.greylock.com/announcing-the-launch-of-skyhigh-networks-and-greylocks-investment/ |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }}

The company raised $20 million in May, 2013, led by Sequoia Capital.{{Cite news |title= Skyhigh Networks Raises $20M Series B To Find, Manage Cloud Services |work= Forbes |date= May 22, 2013 |author= Tomio Geron |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/05/22/to-find-and-manage-cloud-services-skyhigh-networks-raises-20m-series-b/ |accessdate= October 5, 2016 }}

Another investment of $40 million was announced in June, 2014, from existing investors and Salesforce.com.{{Cite news |title= Sequoia and Greylock Lead $40 Million Round for Skyhigh Networks |date= June 23, 2014 |author= David Gelles |work= Deal Book |publisher= The New York Times |url= https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/sequoia-and-greylock-lead-40-million-round-for-skyhigh-networks/ |accessdate= October 5, 2016}}

On November 28, 2017, McAfee announced it would acquire Skyhigh Networks and appoint Rajiv Gupta as the head of McAfee's entire cloud business.{{Cite news |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/mcafee-skyhigh-networks/ |title= McAfee acquires cloud security startup Skyhigh Networks, last valued at $400M |date= November 28, 2017 |author= Ingrid Lunden |publisher= TechCrunch |accessdate= November 29, 2017}}

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