Pradeep Gupta
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Pradeep Gupta is the chairman and managing director of Cyber Media, one of 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.
In 1982 while promoting the newly founded Cyber Media he launched Dataquest magazine, which continues to be recognized as a barometer for India’s IT
industry.
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, Cyber Media is a public company with an annual revenue of Rs. 1 billion. The company has 15 publications, 12 websites, 100+ events and weekly TV programs in the infotech, telecom, consumer electronics & biotech areas. CyberMedia’s brands include Dataquest, PCQuest
, Voice&Data, BioSpectrum, DARE, MIT’s Technology Review, CIOL.com and Global Services. The group's media services include market research (CMR India) and content outsourcing (Content Matrix Inc).
It reported a revenue of Rs 215.07 million for the quarter ending June 30, 2010.
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.; , and many more.
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’s primary career interests are in the new media
, entertainment and education. He is noted, among other things, for his solid understanding of the information technology industry, vision and ability to lead and empower others. Bloomberg Businessweek describes Gupta as a “soft-spoken” and “down-to-earth” person who leads with a team approach.
He served the government of India
as a member of the nation’s Department of Electronics "Study Team on Microelectronics." He also led a strategic consultancy that formulated the nation’s software exports strategy. Additionally he was a member of Delhi’s government appointed “Working Group on IT.”
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.
Early life
Gupta earned a Bachelor’s in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1975 and an MBA from the 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.In 1982 while promoting the newly founded Cyber Media he launched Dataquest magazine, which continues to be recognized as a barometer for India’s IT
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
industry.
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, Cyber Media is a public company with an annual revenue of Rs. 1 billion. The company has 15 publications, 12 websites, 100+ events and weekly TV programs in the infotech, telecom, consumer electronics & biotech areas. CyberMedia’s brands include Dataquest, PCQuest
PCQuest
PCQuest is an Indian technology publication, and part of the Cyber Media group of publications that also publish Dataquest.Founded in 1982, the magazine was originally called PC World, and was one of the earliest technology magazines published in India...
, Voice&Data, BioSpectrum, DARE, MIT’s Technology Review, CIOL.com and Global Services. The group's media services include market research (CMR India) and content outsourcing (Content Matrix Inc).
It reported a revenue of Rs 215.07 million for the quarter ending June 30, 2010.
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.; , and many more.
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’s primary career interests are in the new media
New media
New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...
, entertainment and education. He is noted, among other things, for his solid understanding of the information technology industry, vision and ability to lead and empower others. Bloomberg Businessweek describes Gupta as a “soft-spoken” and “down-to-earth” person who leads with a team approach.
He served the government of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
as a member of the nation’s Department of Electronics "Study Team on Microelectronics." He also led a strategic consultancy that formulated the nation’s software exports strategy. Additionally he was a member of Delhi’s government appointed “Working Group on IT.”
Honors
Pradeep Gupta received the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi in 2000. He also received the Helen Keller Award from the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People, the Award for Outstanding Contribution towards National Development from IIT Delhi Alumni Association.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.