Background
Gupta was born in 1949 in India and spent her early years in Delhi.
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Vinita Gupta
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In 1974 she came to the United States and earned an Master of Surgery in electrical engineering from University of California Los Los Angeles
Career
She is credited with being the first woman of Indian origin to take her company public in the United States. In 1973 she earned a bachelor"s degree in electronics and communications from the University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee). In her early career, Gupta worked as an engineer for General Telephone and Electric Lenkurt and later held engineering management positions at Bell Northern Research (now part of Nortel Networks).
In May 1985 Gupta founded Digital Link Corporation, a company which engaged in the design, manufacture, marketing, and support of digital wide-area network access products for global networks.
The company went public in 1994 and was later renamed as Quick Eagle Networks. Gupta still serves as chairman, chief executive officer and president
Gupta also serves as chairman of Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute. She also serves on the board of Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and Cancer Prevention Institute of California.
Gupta holds two United States Patents, one for a solid state relay issued in 1984 and another for a square root circuit issued in 1986.
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