Dev Gupta

Dr. Dev Gupta received his Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He held various engineering positions at the Bell Laboratories in Andover, MA, from 1977 to 1985.

He was the General Manager at Integrated Network Corporation, a manufacturer of DSL access products, from 1985 to 1995. Dr. Gupta founded two companies, Dagaz

Technologies and Maxcomm, which were acquired by Cisco Systems in 1997 and 1999 respectively.

These companies developed and manufactured telephone exchange and voice and data equipment for DSL. He was Cisco’s VP of Architecture in the access business unit between founding Dagaz Technologies and Maxcomm. In 2000, he founded Narad Networks which manufactured Gigabit Ethernet networking equipment for the cable industry.

Narad Networks (renamed PhyFlex) was acquired by Cienna in 2007. Newlans was founded in 2003. Dr. Gupta is a Charter Member of the Atlantic chapter of the Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), an organization which promotes entrepreneurship.

The World Economic Forum named him a ‘Tech. Pioneer’ for the years 2001 and 2002. He has over thirty patents in communications, networking, circuit design, and signal processing.