Rakesh Gupta

Summary

As VP of Technology and Services, Mr. Gupta is responsible for providing thought leadership, development and delivery of solutions for ThrivOn clients, worldwide. Prior to ThrivOn, Mr. Gupta served as the Global Director of Enterprise Services at PPC. In this role he was responsible for strategy, execution, organizational growth, business development and providing leadership to corporate information technology consulting business in North America and Europe. A multi-faceted and hands-on professional, with a deep grasp of technical as well as business consulting, Mr. Gupta continues to play the roles of practice leader, global implementation manager, delivery manager, program manager, strategy consultant, and chief technical architect. Mr. Gupta is passionate about applying technology to solve business challenges. He prides himself as the problem solver and firmly believes that business necessity is the mother of technology innovation. Mr. Gupta has deep expertise in solving and developing innovative solutions for portal, content management, business process management, document assembly and application development challenges across commercial organizations and government agencies. A recognized thought leader and speaker in application of technology, Mr. Gupta frequently plays the advisory role for most of his clients on their information technology challenges. He is also featured regularly on various technology media such as Microsoft Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-Architecting-Collaborative-Web-based-Document-Composition-Solutions) Specialties: Business development, corporate development, practice management, IT road-mapping and strategy, product development, document assembly, document automation, software engineering, solutions design, delivery management, systems integration, SOA/WOA consulting and enterprise architecture