Ajay Gupta is director of the Innovations for the Next Billion
Customers Lab (HP Labs India), addressing the technology needs
of customers in India’s rapidly growing markets, creating
technologies to make IT relevant, affordable and simple to
consume.
Since joining HP in 1986, Gupta has held positions with HP
Labs in India, Singapore and the United Kingdom. From 1998
to 2003, he was managing director of the Indian subsidiary
of HP’s joint venture with Ericsson, Ericsson HP Telecom (EHPT),
responsible for building its research and development and
global offshore services center.
Prior to this, Gupta was
system integration business manager of the HP Telecom Management
division in Singapore, where he led multi-million dollar solution
sales and delivery teams. From 1991 to 1995, Gupta led teams
at HP Labs Bristol, U.K., working on electronic test systems
and intelligent networks to develop a number of products that
now form HP’s and Agilent’s telecom offerings. Between 1989
and 1991, Gupta was part of the team that set up HP’s offshore
software operation in Bangalore, India.
Gupta earned his bachelor
of science at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India,
and his master of science at the University of Edinburgh,
U.K. He holds several granted patents and has been published
in numerous technical journals.
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