Biography

Pushpendra Kumar “PK” Gupta received a B. E. in Computer Science in 1985 from MNREC, PGDM from AIMA. He has over 33 years of experience in the IT Industry. Currently, P.K. is Global Presales Leader for Data Protection Solutions for Dell EMC based out of Silicon Valley, USA. In this role, PK is responsible for worldwide presales engineers. P.K. has been with EMC since May 1997, earlier roles being Sr Director Specialty Presales, Director Product Marketing, Product Management and Director of Engineering.

P.K. was a visiting professor in India for the last 22 years in various institutions such as Amity Business School, AIMA, IMT, IEC and JIMS. He is also on international advisory boards in a few Indian, Singapore and Malaysian universities. P.K. writes technical and management articles in various international magazines; and he is an international speaker on storage management, cloud, big data, disaster recovery, IoT, Data protection & Privacy regulations and cyber security. He is also founder and Chairman Emeritus for SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) India and SNIA South Asia. P.K. was awarded the 2012 SNIA Industry Impact Award by SNIA International, 2013 APJ EMC President Leadership Award and has been nominated for President Club consistently from last 10 years. PK is also a member of the prestigious Global SNIA Board of Directors since October 2018. He was induced into EMC DPS Hall of Fame in May 2015.