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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Manish Gupta joins Xerox as VP for India

Manish Gupta joins Xerox as VP for IndiaAs per the latest announcement made by Xerox, the company has appointedManish Gupta as Vice-President, Director of the Xerox Research Centre in India. As XRCI Director, Gupta will lead the centre’s mission to capture innovation opportunities for Xerox in emerging markets and advance Xerox’s position as the leading global provider of document and business process services. He also will oversee efforts to nurture “Open Innovation” partnerships in India and across the globe.
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Gupta will report to Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox Chief Technology Officer & President, Xerox Innovation Group. He joins Xerox after serving as Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Technology Division in India. He has also held various leadership positions with IBM both in India and at the company’s T.J. Watson Research Center in New York.

At IBM, Gupta served as Director of IBM Research in India and was IBM’s Chief Technologist for India and South Asia. From 2001 to 2006, he served as a Senior Manager at the T. J. Watson Research Center where he led a team developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer, which won a National Medal of Technology and Innovation from the U.S. President in 2009.

With Manish’s intimate knowledge of the Indian market, I look forward to a very high level of partnership between research and business teams to deliver game changing innovations for emerging markets and the world, said Rajat Jain, Managing Director, Xerox India. 

Manish earned a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT, Delhi in 1987, a Master of Science degree from the Ohio State University in 1988 and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1992. He has co authored more than 75 papers, with more than 5,000 citations in the Google Scholar in the areas of high-performance computing, compilers and Java Virtual Machine optimizations, and has been granted more than 15 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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