Sunny Gupta
Sunny Gupta is General Partner at Generative Capital, Executive Chair Board at Smartsheet, Co-founder and Executive Chairman at Thira, and Co-founder, Incoming CEO at Apptio / Smartsheet. He previously served as CEO at Apptio and has founded Apptio, which was acquired, and Thira, where he remains active. His expertise spans enterprise software, AI, and SaaS, with experience as an operator, investor, and board member.
GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Sunny Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Apptio
The Enterprise Cloud Wars: The race for leadership in the public cloud market has been closely tracked and AWS has long been touted as the leader in cloud infrastructure. But, with slowing growth, its main competitor Azure has gained precious ground in the enterprise. Among the largest and most strategic organizations in the world, Apptio has found that IT leaders are adopting Azure at near-equal rates as AWS. During this session, Apptio’s CEO will explore why this distribution is occurring and how many of these organizations are adopting a hybrid IT mindset to make the most of the cloud and…
Organizations
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Thira Co-founder and Executive Chairman 2026–present · current
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Generative Capital General Partner 2025–present · current
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Smartsheet Executive Chair Board 2025–present · current
Education
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University of South Carolina B.S., Computer Science · 1989–1992
