Pradeep Gupta

Pradeep Gupta (Born March 8, 1955) is the chairman and managing director of CyberMedia, India’s leading specialty media house and a public company with an ICT focus. He has received national awards for his championship of the disabled, and alumni awards for entrepreneurship. He is also an Angel investor and a mentor to a number of entrepreneurs.
Early life
Pradeep Gupta earned a Bachelor’s in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1975 and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1977.
Career
Gupta began his career with HCL Ltd. where he led the Eastern Zone facility’s software development.
He is the chairman of Cyber Media (India) Ltd. based in Gurgaon, near New Delhi, South Asia’s largest specialty media house and one of India’s leading magazine publishers,
Other positions Gupta holds or has held include President, TiE Delhi; Co-Founder, Indian Angels Network; Past Chairman, PanIIT India; President, Association of Indian Magazines; Governing Board Member, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi; Director, UTI Asset Management Company; Member, Investment Management Committee, Punjab Venture Capital Ltd.
He co-founded and served as director till 2005 for SQL Star International Ltd., a company engaged in software exports.
He serves as director of the following companies: Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., IDC (India) Limited, SX2 Media LLC, and Indian Newspaper Society.
Gupta received the Karmaveer Puraskaar award (social justice national awards)in the “Corporate Citizens for Holistic Media Initiatives” category for 2009-2010.
Work that led to this award include his social intervention plan that resulted in the IT/BPO industry becoming accessible to the disabled, his work towards making all Indian websites disabled-friendly and his ‘Getting Girls to School’ programme.

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