Gunjan Sinha
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Gunjan Sinha in India is an Indian-American entrepreneur
. He is currently the chairman of MetricStream
, a market leader in Enterprise-wide GRC and Quality Solutions for global corporations. He was one of the co-founders of WhoWhere, which was sold to Lycos in 1998, and eGain, which went public in 1999.
He obtained his BS and MS degrees in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and UC Santa Cruz, respectively. He also holds an MS in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University. He was featured as one of the 50 most successful immigrant entrepreneurs in the US by Silicon India. In 2007, he was awarded the Top 50 Asian Americans in Business Award.
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
. He is currently the chairman of MetricStream
MetricStream
MetricStream is a Governance, Risk and Compliance Management platform provider, headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. MetricStream solutions are based on its Enterprise Compliance Platform , which is built on the J2EE architecture.Details...
, a market leader in Enterprise-wide GRC and Quality Solutions for global corporations. He was one of the co-founders of WhoWhere, which was sold to Lycos in 1998, and eGain, which went public in 1999.
Career
Over his career, Gunjan has spent over 15 years in various entrepreneurial, board and executive positions developing, marketing and selling software and Internet services. As an internet pioneer, he was the co-founder and President of WhoWhere? Inc., a leading Internet directory services company acquired by Lycos in 1998 as well as eGain, an online customer service company which successfully served over 800 businesses around the world. Earlier in his career, Gunjan also co-founded Viman Software, Inc., a network license management company, and Parsec Technologies Pvt. Ltd., an international call center company based in India. Gunjan has served on the Board of several venture-backed technology companies.He obtained his BS and MS degrees in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and UC Santa Cruz, respectively. He also holds an MS in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University. He was featured as one of the 50 most successful immigrant entrepreneurs in the US by Silicon India. In 2007, he was awarded the Top 50 Asian Americans in Business Award.
Companies chaired
- http://www.metricstream.com : ComplianceOnline.com an online portal and community of compliance professionals has been honored with a 2009 Forrester Groundswell Award in the Business-to-Business Spreading category.
- http://www.regalix.com : RegalixRegalixRegalix is a digital marketing company incorporated and headquartered in Palo Alto, California in 2004. It has offices in India located at Bangalore, Delhi and Chandigarh.In 2007 Regalix was featured in the list of Red Herring Top 100 Asia companies....
Inc. a digital marketing company has been named in the top 30 SEM companies in India.