Arun Gupta is a technology finance executive with experience in U.S. and international venture capital, emerging technologies, entrepreneurship and national security & technology policy. Mr. Gupta is currently an Adjunct Professor/Senior Advisor to the Provost at Georgetown University, a Lecturer at Stanford University and serves on the Stanford in Washington (“SIW”) advisory board, a Venture Partner at Columbia Capital and a member of Senator Mark Warner’s Tech and Cybersecurity Advisory Committee. As a Partner at Columbia Capital, Mr. Gupta’s investment career spanned eighteen years, with a focus on emerging tech-enabled services and infrastructure companies in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, government services, mobile and Software as a Service (“SaaS’’)/cloud infrastructure sectors. He is currently on the board and/or was previously involved with Columbia Capital portfolio companies, including Adjoined Consulting (acquired by Kanbay International, Inc.), Altamira (acquired by Clearsky), Daz3D, Millennial Media (New York Stock Exchange: MM), Endgame (acquired by Elastic), Riptech (acquired by Symantec Corporation), Softek Storage Holdings (acquired by IBM), Verato, Vubiquity (acquired by Amdocs) and Webs (acquired by Vistaprint). Prior to joining Columbia Capital in 2000, Mr. Gupta was at Carlyle Venture Partners where he focused on software investments. Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Gupta held positions in Arthur D. Little’s telecommunications and technology consulting practice and shared responsibility for establishing the management consulting operations in Mumbai from 1995 to 1998. As a technology angel investor, Mr. Gupta focuses on SaaS, GovTech, and sustainable food investments, and currently serves on the board and/or was actively involved with 1901 Group (acquired by Leidos), Vyve Broadband (acquired by Cable One), Binary Fountain (acquired by Press Ganey), FAST Acquisition Corp (New York Stock Exchange: FST), a restaurant and sustainable food special purpose company, Morning Consult, a leading SaaS global data intelligence company, Blacklynx, a leading provider of high-speed analytics solutions for the national security market, and InKind Capital, a SaaS alternative micro-financing platform. Mr. Gupta received his Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University, Master of Science degree in Engineering from Stanford University and Bachelor of Science degree with distinction in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.