Rajiv L. Gupta (born December 23, 1945) is an American businessman, the current chairman of Aptiv, an auto parts company, and a former executive with

Rohm and Haas Rohm and Haas Company is a US manufacturer of specialty chemicals for end use markets such as building and construction, electronic devices, packaging, household and personal care products. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company is organiz ...

, a manufacturer of specialty chemicals.

Early life

Gupta was born on December 23, 1945, in Muzaffarnagar, India, the son of Phool Prakash and Rukmini Sahai. He graduated in 1967 with a degree in mechanical engineering from

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT- Bombay or IIT-B) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. IIT Bombay is mainly known for the highly competitive four-year Bachelor of Tech ...

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

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

, and his

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

Drexel University Drexel University is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony Joseph Drexel, Anthony J. Drexel, a financier ...

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 Dow in 2009. In April 2005, the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce named Gupta as one of the top ten most influential

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in business. In 2006, Gupta was named Drexel's 53rd Business Leader of the Year. Gupta has also served as the chairman for the

American Chemistry Council American Chemistry Council (ACC), known as the Manufacturing Chemists' Association at its founding in 1872 then as the Chemical Manufacturers' Association (from 1978 until 2000), is an industry trade association for American chemical companies, b ...

and the

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, America Section. In 2010, he was chairman of Avantor Performance Material based in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, 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 Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Aptiv grew out of the now-defunct American company, Delphi Automotive Systems, which itself was formerly a component of General Moto ...

. 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, former associate attorney general

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and Amita Gupta, Director of Johns Hopkins Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases. They lived in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania until Gupta left Rohm and Haas. 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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