Ajay Gupta

Biography

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.

Publications

Published in numerous technical journals

Patents

Ajay holds several patents