Rajiv L. Gupta (born December 23, 1945) is an

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businessman, the current chairman of

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, an auto parts company, and a former executive with

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, a manufacturer of specialty chemicals.

Early life

Gupta was born on December 23, 1945, in

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, India, the son of Phool Prakash and Rukmini Sahai. He graduated in 1967 with a degree in mechanical engineering from

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. Gupta continued his studies going on to earn an M.S. degree in Operations Research in 1969 from

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, and his

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in Finance from the Bennett S. LeBow College of Business at Drexel University in 1972.

Career

He is the former chairman, CEO, and president of

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-based

. In 1971, Gupta joined Rohm and Haas as a financial analyst. Working his way up in the company, Gupta was elected to the board of directors and named vice chairman in January 1999 and later became chairman and chief executive officer in October 1999. He assumed the additional title of president in early 2005. He left Rohm and Haas after its $15.3 billion acquisition by

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in 2009. In April 2005, the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce named Gupta as one of the top ten most influential Asian Americans in business. In 2006, Gupta was named Drexel's 53rd Business Leader of the Year. Gupta has also served as the chairman for the

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and the

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, America Section. In 2010, he was chairman of Avantor Performance Material based in

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, near

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. In February 2015, he became the chairman of

Delphi Automotive Aptiv PLC is an Irish-American automotive technology supplier with headquarters in Dublin. Aptiv grew out of the now-defunct American company, Delphi Automotive Systems, which itself was formerly a component of General Motors. History The com ...

. Delphi Automotive spun off its powertrain division and aftermarket related businesses (now

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) in December 2017 and changed its name to Aptiv plc.

Personal life

Gupta married Kamla Varshney in 1968, and they have two children, civil rights attorney

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and Dr. Amita Gupta, Director of Johns Hopkins Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases. They live in

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. In 2018, Raj and Kamla Gupta made a gift to the Drexel University LeBow College of Business to establish the Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute.

References

External links

Delphi Automotive, Board of Directors
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