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=== Keynote === === Keynote Systems ===
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Umang Gupta (born 1949) is an Indian-American entrepreneur and Silicon Valley, California executive credited with writing the first business plan for Oracle Corporation.

Biography

Education

Umang Gupta holds a Bachelor of Technology degree (1971) in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. During the Vietnam War, Gupta immigrated to the United States to earn his M.B.A. and to join the technology industry. After immigrating to the United States, Gupta also earned M.B.A. degree (1972) from Kent State University in Ohio, US. In 1996, Umang received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

IBM and Oracle

After graduating, he joined IBM as a computer sales representative. After working seven years at IBM, in 1981 Umang Gupta joined Oracle Corporation as their 17th employee. He is credited with writing the company’s first business plan in 1981 and was eventually promoted to vice president of the company’s microcomputer products division. He served in this role until his departure from the company in 1984. He is credited with writing the first business plan for the company. Umang has also been an active investor and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-up companies including serving on the Board of Trustees of Mosaix, a publicly held call-center systems company from 1997 to 1999 until its sale to Lucent Technologies.

Gupta Technologies

He was the founder and chief executive of Gupta Technologies, a client/server database and tools company, from 1984 to 1996, where he helped to usher in the era of client server computing with the first SQL database server and application development tools for PC networks. In the ‘80s, Gupta Technologies produced products such as interfaces for programming custom applications and tools for programmers with a background in Cobol, dBase, or Visual Basic. Gupta was the first executive who had worked under Larry Ellison to start his own company. Gupta sold the company in 1997.

Keynote Systems

Gupta was chairman and chief executive officer of Keynote Systems from December 1997. Gupta oversaw the company as it went public in 1999. Gupta was able to negotiate the merger between Keynote and Vividence in 2004 after meeting Vividence CEO Peter Watkins at a poker game. It was sold to private equity company Thoma Bravo in August 2013.

Other

In 2000 Gupta was honored with of the Shreyas Mavanoor Foundation Award for Civic Leadership and Philanthropy. Gupta served on the board of the Peninsula Community Foundation, California, which later merged with another foundation to form the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the largest community foundation in the United States. He along with his wife Ruth were donors to, and served as board members of PARCA, a non-profit organization in the Bay Area of California devoted to the needs of the developmentally disabled and their families, and helped to found Raji House, a respite home for the developmentally disabled, located in Burlingame, California. Umang also has an avid interest in history and served as Chairman of the Board of the San Mateo Historical Association where he and his wife helped sponsor the "Immigrants Gallery", a permanent exhibition to honor the contributions of immigrants to San Mateo county. Umang was also a co-founder of the IIT Kanpur Foundation and currently serves as Global Board Chairman of PanIIT, the alumni organization of over 200,000 alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology. He has also participated as an angel investor and adviser to various Silicon Valley technology companies.

References

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  9. Gupta, Umang; Gietz, William (June 1989). SQL Programmer's Guide. Que Corporation. ISBN 9780880223904.
  10. ^ Martin, Neil A. (2 December 2004). "Deal Done, With Perseverance and a Poker Game". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
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  12. Abelson, Reed (16 May 2001). "MANAGEMENT; Cyclical School of Hard Knocks". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  13. "Thoma Bravo Completes Take-Private Acquisition of Keynote". Press release. Reuters. 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  14. "Keynote Completes Sale to Thoma Bravo: Becoming a Privately-Held Company". Press release. Keynote. 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 3 September 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  15. "Keynote sale shows what Umang Gupta learned". The Wall Street Journal. 23 August 2013.
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