August 22, 2013– Manish Gupta  is to be  Vice President, Xerox  and    Director of the Xerox Research Centre in India. He will lead the centre’s mission to capture innovation opportunities for Xerox in emerging markets and advance Xerox’s position as the leading global provider of document and business process services. He also will oversee efforts to nurture ‘Open Innovation’ partnerships in India and across the globe.

Manish joins Xerox after serving as Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Technology Division in India. He also has held various leadership positions with IBM both in India (as  director of IBM Research, India)  and at the company’s T.J. Watson Research Center in New York ( as Senior Manager heading the  system software team  for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer). 

"With Manish’s outstanding depth of knowledge and experience in business process services across a wide variety of industries as well as his track record of innovation for the emerging markets, he is ideally suited to lead our research center in India,” said Vandebroek, Xerox Chief Technology Officer and President, Xerox Innovation Group. “We are confident Manish and his team will help capture innovation opportunities in our both emerging markets and global business initiatives.”