Rakesh Gupta is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KiwiTech. He also serves as General Partner at Tuhaye Venture Partners. Gupta has more than 20 years of experience in the publishing sector and is responsible for KiwiTech's long-term strategic planning. A native of Marietta, Ohio, Rakesh has a master's degree in business administration from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University. Rakesh has served as Governor Mark Warner's appointee on the Board of the Center for Innovative Technology, an organization focused on creating a better environment for entrepreneurial companies in Virginia. Rakesh is also a former President of TiE-DC, the DC chapter of TiE, the largest nonprofit organization of entrepreneurs with 50 chapters around the world.