Will lead the centre’s mission to capture innovation opportunities for Xerox in emerging markets
Xerox has named Manish 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.
Gupta will report to Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox CTO and President, Xerox Innovation Group. He joins Xerox after serving as managing director of Goldman Sachs Technology Division in India. He also has 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.
Gupta will work with researchers to create high-impact technologies and focus on tapping into opportunities to create high performing and agile services for enterprises across industries such as banking, transportation, health care, customer care and education. In this role, he will work very closely with the Xerox India leadership team.
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.
