About the Authors
Arun Gupta
Arun Gupta, CEO of NobleReach, is a venture capitalist, Lecturer at Stanford University for “Valley Meets Mission”, and Adjunct Entrepreneurship Professor and Senior Advisor to Provost at Georgetown University, and author of the National Bestseller, Venture Meets Mission and The Mission Generation. Arun is active in the emerging technology, entrepreneurship, public policy, and venture finance communities. He is passionate about inspiring students to pursue mission-oriented entrepreneurial careers.
At Stanford University, Arun serves on the Stanford in Washington (SIW) Advisory Board, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Advisory Council, and is a Faculty Lecturer teaching ” Valley Meets Mission: Purposeful Entrepreneurship with Government” at Stanford in Washington. The class highlights his venture capital and academic experience building successful mission-oriented ventures at the intersection of the government, mission, technology, and entrepreneurship.
At Georgetown University, Arun serves on the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, Tech & Society Steering Committee, and teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital at McDonough School of Business. He was awarded the Entrepreneurial Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and the Peter W. Gonzalez Jr. Award for Excellence in Faculty Teaching.
As a Partner at Columbia Capital, Arun’s investment career spanned eighteen years including initiating the firm’s Cybersecurity and Government technology investments with a focus on National Security, AI, and SaaS/Cloud infrastructure sectors. Prior to joining Columbia Capital in 2000, Arun was at Carlyle Venture Partners focused on software investments. Prior to Carlyle, Arun held positions in Arthur D. Little’s telecom and technology consulting practice and shared responsibility for establishing ADL’s management consulting operations in Mumbai 1995-98.
Arun received a B.S. degree with Distinction in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University (’91). He received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (’95).
Arun has lived in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for over 40 years and has been actively involved in local community organizations focusing on coaching youth sports, inner city educational programs, and food insecurity programs for vulnerable communities. Arun has been happily married for 27+ years to Dr. Anjali Mehta Gupta and has three wonderful children.
Thomas J. Fewer
Dr. Thomas Fewer is an Assistant Professor of Management at Rutgers University School of Business–Camden. Previously, he was Vice President at NobleReach Foundation, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He is an author of the National Bestseller, Venture Meets Mission (Stanford University Press), which focuses on how entrepreneurs and government can collaborate to develop technology-based solutions to major societal challenges, including issues of climate, healthcare, and food. Thomas’ research tackles important questions at the nexus of business ethics, politics, and government. His work has been published in leading business journals like the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, and Journal of Management Studies, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and on National Public Radio (NPR).
Dr. Fewer holds a PhD in Business Administration with a specialization in Strategic Management from Drexel University, where he was recognized as a leading instructor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship. He also holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Villanova University and Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Rutgers University–Camden (’15). Before entering academia, Thomas served as a financial analyst in the Rotary and Mission Systems division at the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He was also previously employed as a national sales operation analyst at Subaru of America and as a risk management coordinator at the Madison Square Garden Company for the New York Rangers and New York Knicks.
