Suren Gupta

Biography

Suren Gupta is executive vice president, Allstate Technology & Strategic Ventures for Allstate Insurance Company. In this role, he leads a global organization delivering innovative and transformational solutions for Allstate's customers, agency owners and employees. He is responsible for the company's information technology strategy, operations and processes. In addition, Gupta oversees Allstate's strategic ventures with companies that advance its technology-driven, customer-focused strategy. He has been instrumental in enhancing information technology's delivery capabilities, focusing on digital innovation, efficiency, information security and expanding global operations to enable 24/7 support and development capabilities. His organization has won numerous awards, including the United Kingdom's highest honor for business success, the Queen's Award for Enterprise. Gupta joined Allstate in 2011, bringing leadership, information technology, operations, product development and sales experience to Allstate. Previously, he was executive vice president and group chief information officer for consumer lending at Wells Fargo. Under his leadership, real estate lending was re-engineered with new delivery capabilities that enabled the field sales force to serve customers more effectively with just-in-time information. Earlier in his career, Gupta provided key leadership and vision as a founding member of the corporate executive team of Airclic Inc., a startup wireless Internet venture, and was senior vice president, informational technology and operations for GMAC Residential, a division of General Motors. Gupta also has held senior operations, sales, marketing and strategic development roles at INTELSAT, a groundbreaking satellite telecommunications company. Gupta is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He also received an MBA from George Mason University and a master's degree in computer engineering from West Virginia University. In 2015, he was named to the board of directors of Zions Bancorporation. He also serves on the Chicago Public Library Foundation Board and on the board of Pratham U.S.A, the American chapter for Pratham, which was established in 1994 to provide pre-school education to children in India's slums. It now is the country's largest nongovernmental organization with activities in 21 states of India to provide education to millions of children who might otherwise work instead of attending school.   

Research Interest

Business and Management