Ram Gupta

Bio

As a Senior Executive Ram has been part of teams that have created market capitalization of over 10B. As an Independent Director he has been part of the teams that have created market capitalization of over 3B. He has been part of 3 IPOs and 5 Acquisitions. Currently Ram is the Chairman of board of directors at Aryaka Networks and Joveo Inc. He also serves as an Independent director on the board of directors of a number of early and growth-stage companies. Previously he served as director on the boards of various startups and public companies including Progress Software PRGS S1 Corporation SONE acquired by ACI Platform Computing acquired by IBM Persistent Systems IPO PRST Yodlee IPO YDLE Plateau Systems acquired by SucccessFactors ThinkGeek acquired by GameSpot and Accruent Inc. Acquired by Vista Ram served as the President and CEO of Cast Iron Systems a venture-funded start-up. During his tenure the company grew to become the largest vendor of application integration technology in the cloud and was acquired by IBM. Prior to that Ram was an Executive Vice President at PeopleSoft Inc. responsible for strategy marketing development customer service alliances and mergers and acquisitions. Under his leadership PeopleSoft s market capitalization grew from 3 billion to 10 billion and it was acquired by Oracle. Prior to that Ram was the Senior Vice President and General Manager at venture-funded WebMD Health Corp. where he helped the company grow from a start-up to a public company with a market cap of over 2 billion. Ram is a member of MENSA and holds several patents in the U.S. He was awarded the Smithsonian Computer World Search for the Heroes Award for the year 2000 for his work on a healthcare integration platform. He holds an MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BS degree in Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani India.