Sunny Gupta

Sunny Gupta is co-founder, President and CEO of Apptio. Sunny's career in enterprise software spans more than 16 years, with roles in general management, strategic marketing, product management and business development. Most recently he was the Executive VP of Products at Opsware, and was responsible for all of the company's product businesses (up to its acquisition by HP for over $1.6 billion). Prior to Opsware, Sunny was the co-founder and CEO of iConclude, which pioneered the IT runbook automation market (and drove its acquisition by Opsware for $62 million in less than two years from inception). Before founding iConclude, Sunny ran the Java/.NET Performance Management Product Group for Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP for approximately $4 billion) and served as VP of Marketing and Business Development at Performant (acquired by Mercury Interactive). He also served as General Manager of Business Development at Rational Software (acquired by IBM for approximately $2 billion), while playing a role on the team that helped scale that company from $300 million to $850 million in revenue. Sunny also co-founded Vigor Technology before its acquisition by Rational, and held product management and consulting roles at Easel Corporation and IBM. Sunny earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of South Carolina. He can be reached at sgupta@apptio.com.

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