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Umang Gupta holds a Bachelor of Technology degree (1971) in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and an Master of Business Administration degree (1972) from Kent State University in Ohio, United States of America. In 1996, Umang received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for his outstanding contributions to Information Technology and entrepreneurial achievements.
Umang Gupta is the former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Keynote Systems, Incorporated. (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation: KEYN). He served in that capacity from December 1997 to August 2013. Keynote Systems is a Silicon Valley, California Company that employs approximately 500 people and had revenue of $125.0 million in fiscal year 2013.
The company develops and sells services, hardware and software to measure, test, assure and improve the quality of service of the Internet and of mobile communications.
lieutenant was sold to Thoma Bravo, a private equity company, in August 2013.Keynote Pressroom
Education
International Business Machines Corporation and Oracle
After working seven years at International Business Machines Corporation, in 1981 Umang Gupta joined Oracle Corporation as their 17th employee and served as Vice President and General Manager of the Microcomputer Products Division through 1984. At Oracle he is credited with writing the first business plan for the company.
Umang has also been an active investor and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-up companies including serving on the Board of Trustees of Mosaix, a publicly held call-center systems company from 1997 to 1999 until its sale to Lucent Technologies. Other
Apart from his professional activities, Umang has previously served on the board of the Peninsula Community Foundation, California, United States of America, which later merged with another foundation to form the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the largest community foundation in the United States.
He has also participated as an angel investor and adviser to various Silicon Valley technology companies.
Gupta Technologies.
In 1996, Umang received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for his outstanding contributions to Information Technology and entrepreneurial achievements. In 2000 Umang was honored with of the Asian Pacific Foundation Award for Civic Leadership and Philanthropy. Umang was also a co-founder of the IIT Kanpur Foundation and currently serves as Global Board Chairman of PanIIT, the alumni organization of over 200,000 alumni of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology. He was the founder and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gupta Technologies, a client/server database and tools company, from 1984 to 1996, where he helped to usher in the era of client server computing with the world’s first structured query language database server and application development tools for Personal Computer networks.
