Mr. Pradeep Gupta,Chairman,Cybermedia Group

Pradeep Gupta is the Chairman of the CyberMedia Group, South Asia's first and largest specialty media house, with 15 publications, 12 websites, 100+ events and weekly TV programs in the infotech, telecom, consumer electronics & biotech areas. CyberMedia’s brands include Dataquest, PCQuest, Voice&Data, BioSpectrum, DARE, MIT’s Technology Review, CIOL.com and Global Services. The group's media services include market research (IDC India) and content outsourcing (Content Matrix Inc). CyberMedia is a public company.  

Pradeep is also an Angel investor and a mentor to a number of entrepreneurs.

Pradeep has had a long and deep engagement with the alumni activities of both his alma maters viz.,IIT Delhi and IIM Calcutta. He was amongst the founding group of the Delhi Chapter of IIMC AA and has been the constant force supporting the AA activities. He is also part of the founding group of PanIIT as well as PanIIM. He was the Chairman of PanIIT Alumni India. His engagement with the alumni includes: 

• Member of the Global Board of PanIIT Alumni
• Past-Chairman of PanIIT Alumni, India
• Member of the IIT Delhi Advisory Council
• Past President, IIT Delhi Alumni Association
• Member of the Pan-IIM Board
• Past President, IIM Calcutta Alumni Association, Delhi

Other positions include:

• Founder, Indian Angel Network
• President, TiE, Delhi
• Vice President, Association of Indian Magazines
• Board Member, Indian Newspaper Society (INS)

He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award of IIT Delhi and the Helen Keller award for working in the disability sector.

He has been associated with a number of other educational institutions or societies or companies as under:

• Member, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior
• Member, Advisory Board, Entrepreneur Cell, IIM Lucknow
• Former Director, School of Convergence
• Former Non Executive Chairman - Learning Universe Private Limited.
• Former Member Academic Advisory Council, Aravali Institute of Management, Jodhpur.
• Former Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Management Studies, Roorkee.
• Member, IT Vision Board, Amity Centre for Information Technology
• Former Member, Board of Governors, Maharishi Institute of Management.
• Member, Board of Advisor, AIESEC-Delhi University

He has also been part of numerous government committees. Some of them are as under:

• Member, Investment Management Committee, Punjab Venture Capital Ltd.
• Former Member, Information Technology Vision Group, Government of Punjab
• Former Member, Strategic consultancy for the Indian government to formulate India’s software exports strategy.
• Former Member, “Study Team on Microelectronics”, for Department of Electronics, Govt. of India.
• Former Member, Working Group on IT, Govt. of Delhi

Pradeep is an Engineer from IIT Delhi (1975) and an MBA from IIM Calcutta (1977)