User Engagement Platform Veteran Rakesh Gupta Joins ThrivOn as Vice President of Engineering

March 29, 2012 - PRLog -- ThrivOn (visit http://www.thrivon.com for details), a leading provider of Business Analytics, Market Research and Corporate Strategy solutions to companies worldwide, today announced the appointment of Rakesh Gupta as Vice President of Engineering. With more than 15 years of experience in software development, portal, user engagement platforms and collaborative document assembly solutions, Mr. Gupta will build and manage the company’s technology offering and will oversee new solution development.

“We are pleased to welcome Rakesh to the ThrivOn team,” said ThrivOn VP of Strategy and Solutions, Rajeev Kumar. “Rakesh brings a wealth of experience and proven success in portals and other user engagement platforms, which is at the core of ThrivOn's technology offerings. We look forward to leveraging this expertise to build innovative solutions and ensure we continue to deliver on our commitment to bring enhanced value to our customers.”

Mr Gupta previously served as Global Director of Technology at Project Performance Corporation. In this role, he was responsible for strategy, execution, organizational growth, business development and providing leadership to corporate information technology consulting business in North America and Europe. He was also instrumental in building much of the information technology capabilities at Project Performance Corporation. Mr Gupta has authored a series of courses and white papers, and is a renowned trainer on the subjects of portals, solutions design and application of technology in general.

“We are excited to have Rakesh as part of the ThrivOn team,” said ThrivOn Director of Business Analytics, Sachin Sinha. “Rakesh brings an exciting mix of user engagement platform experience, open source stack and understanding of Information Management. This will help us develop innovative offerings in Business Analytics and Information Management for our customers. ”

“I am thrilled to be a part of talented ThrivOn team," said Mr. Gupta. "ThrivOn has the depth and industry thought leadership in Data and Analytics. Combined with my architecture, portal and engineering background, we complete the technology solution stack. I am very excited about the new and emerging possibilities at ThrivOn ”

Mr Gupta holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune where he graduated with distinction (highest honors) .

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Our research team conducts primary and secondary research to collate meaningful data and market intelligence. Our analytics team makes use of sophisticated IT systems, data warehousing and analytical applications to analyze data and produce key performance metrics. ThrivOn consultants not only provide actionable insights and recommendations, but also partner with client teams to help implement the recommendations.

We strongly believe that we can flourish only when we ensure that our clients thrive. By assuming shared accountability to improve our client's business performance, we truly offer a partnership approach to consulting.