MSEE ‘91
Entrepreneur Neeraj Gupta has founded and lead several companies throughout his 30-year career.
He received a bachelor’s degree in electronics and electrical engineering in 1989 from Punjab Engineering College, and in 1991, he earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from The University of Alabama.
After graduating from UA, Gupta worked at Octel for seven years as an engineer, product manager and product line manager. He joined Genesys as a product line manager in 1998 and later was a director of business development.
Gupta founded Cymbal Corporation in 2000 and worked as chief executive officer until its acquisition in 2004 by Patni, a top 10 information technology services company in India. He then became a member of the executive team, and for the next four years, Gupta operated as an executive vice president and head of global sales and marketing.
In 2010, he founded Nexient and led as its CEO until 2014. Gupta is now the executive chairman of the company. He is also the co-founder and general partner at Cervin Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm in Palo Alto, California.
Gupta is a member of the Kauffman Fellows Program. He also serves on several boards including Punchh, PayStand, AiFi, ClientSuccess and Bedrock Analytics.
He lives in Saratoga, California, with his wife, Anisha, and they have two children, Riya and Sania.