Rajiv Gupta
Founder and CEO
Securent
Rajiv Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Securent Inc., a leader in enterprise entitlement management. Prior to Securent he was the Founder and CEO of Confluent Software Inc. Confluent was widely recognized as having the industry’s best policy-based web-services management product and was deployed at some of the largest Fortune 500 customers including Merrill Lynch, Hartford Insurance, Citibank, AGEdwards, and Cisco Systems. Confluent was acquired by Oblix in 2004, which was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Confluent’s web-services management product is now sold as the industry-leading CoreSV product from Oracle.
Before starting Confluent, Rajiv spent 11 years at Hewlett-Packard, most recently as the General Manager of the E-speak Division (ESD). He started the division in 1998 to bring to market the E-speak technology that he and his team developed at HPLabs. E-speak is the open source software from HP that takes the Web to its next logical step – from an open platform for data to an open platform for e-services.
E-speak is the precursor to the Web Service offerings from many major IT companies, and has been inducted into the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. The E-services vision and strategy that Rajiv articulated and has evangelized since 1995 is the precursor to the Web Service movement in the industry. Rajiv is widely recognized as a pioneer of Web Services.
Rajiv is the inventor or co-inventor of some of the seminal concepts that underpin Web Services. He has more than 45 patents to his name in processor, architecture, algorithm, and business model design. He continually produces breakthrough ideas that have high business impact. He has been profiled in a number of publications including Forbes, cover story in the New York Times, cover story in the Silicon India magazine, InformationWeek, newsletters of the Harvard Business Press, etc.
Rajiv earned his MS and PhD in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and his BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.