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.[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-inventor 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]