FREMONT: Umang Gupta, chairman and CEO, Keynote Systems (NASDAQ: KEYN), is being recognized for his string of entrepreneurial successes, which included writing the first business plan for Oracle in 1981, as their 17th employee. Gupta founded Centura Software Corporation (NASDAQ: CNTR), formerly known as Gupta Corporation, in 1984 and it grew into one of the world's leading independent software tools and database companies by 1994. With stints at major corporations including IBM and Oracle, Gupta has been a seminal influence on the growth of the enterprise software marketplace. In 1999, Gupta took another company public, Keynote Systems. The 52-year-old entered Keynote Systems as an angel investor in the middle of 1997, and by the end of the year had become the CEO, helping to shape the company’s growth. Gupta graduated as a chemical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1971. Unsurprisingly, he then proceeded to the United States, but uncommonly for the 1970s, he came to study management, not technology. Professionals of his generation rarely had an entrepreneurial bent, and he didn’t either, according to Gupta. That is, he didn’t until he understood the opportunities available in the U.S. Gupta will be presented the award at a dinner banquet, after the siliconindia Annual Conference on November 16, to be held at The Westin Hotel, Santa Clara. He will also deliver the keynote address at the award banquet. Dr. Amar Bose, chairman and CEO of Bose Corporation was last year’s recipient of the siliconindia award for Lifetime Achievement. For more details on the annual conference click here See the conference schedule.
Source: IANS