Founder and Managing Partner, TeleSoft Partners
Trustee, the Aspen Institute
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Board of TrusteesArjun Gupta is the Managing Partner and Founder of TeleSoft Partners, an international special situations venture capital firm. Over the last decade, he has overseen investing in and helping build 60+ private companies, resulting in 35 acquisitions and IPOs to date. At TeleSoft, he manages capital commitments of $625+ million and has established Corporate Partnerships in the US, Europe, and Israel with Bechtel, Deutsche Telekom, Intel Capital, Salesforce.com, Verizon and Vodaphone. Arjun serves on the Board of Directors of Calient Technologies, LogLogic, Validity Sensors, and Nexant. He is also President of his Community Foundation, which supports projects in education, medical research, the environment and the arts. Earlier in his career, Arjun was a Strategy Consultant for hightech clients with McKinsey & Company, and a Software Engineer with Tektronix, Inc. He holds a BA (honors) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College (India), an MS and BS, Phi Beta Kappa, in Computer Science from WSU, and a MBA from Stanford. Arjun splits his time between San Francisco and Aspen. Arjun is a member of the 2001 class of Henry Crown Fellows and a Trustee of the Aspen Institute.
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