Raj Gupta was born in a small village in Uttar Pradesh and arrived in the United States in 1968 with $8 in his pocket to study at Cornell. He built a 39-year career at Rohm and Haas, retiring as Chairman and CEO in 2009 after the company’s $15.3 billion acquisition by Dow. Over his career he served as director at 15 public companies, including Hewlett Packard and DuPont, and chaired both Delphi/Aptiv and Avantor. With his wife Kamla, he founded the Ujala Foundation, supporting education and healthcare in the United States and India.
