Medical and Tech Expertise Added to Jindal Advisory Council
Medical and Tech Expertise Added to Jindal Advisory Council
Ashish Gupta
General Manager & Vice President, U.S. Enterprise Sales
Adobe
Ashish Gupta joined Adobe in September 2021 as general manager and vice president leading Adobe’s $300 million enterprise business for digital experience across all industry verticals. His organization includes sales, customer success, technical architects, strategy, consulting, partners, and other customer-focused teams serving the largest customers in the United States.
Prior to his role at Adobe, Gupta was a senior vice president at Salesforce, where he was responsible for driving growth and customer success for Salesforce’s key U.S. commercial customers.
Previously, Gupta was a general manager at Microsoft, where he led teams building the healthcare vertical and laying the foundation for strategic cloud partnerships with global enterprise customers. Gupta also held consulting, sales and sales leadership roles at IBM and Infosys.
Gupta holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University and a Master’s degree in computer science from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Outside work, Gupta volunteers for non-governmental organizations in India. He is also an active member and volunteer for various tech organizations including TIE and angel networks in Dallas.
Gupta has been married to his wife, Pooja, for 15 years. They have two boys — Avyan and Ruan. When he is not working, he can be found traveling, reading, or shuttling his kids to tennis or swim practice.
The Jindal School is in a unique position to provide world class talent across all disciplines to our organization. I look forward to supporting the students and graduates with how to best position themselves for successful careers at Adobe and other high-tech companies.
Mark Chassay, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas
As chief medical officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, Dr. Mark Chassay works to align the organization’s voice around policy development and Texas Medicaid and Medicare, leads Texas Health Care Management teams, and supports sales and account management, network, and plan performance efforts.
Before joining BCBSTX, Chassay was senior vice provost for Clinical Affairs and Healthcare Partnerships at the University of North Texas Health Science Center where he created two COVID-19 testing sites in underserved communities and oversaw more than $6 million in grants for the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium.
Previously, Chassay served as Texas Health and Human Services Commission Deputy Executive Commissioner for Health Policy and Clinical Services, leading strategic planning for improving clinical quality initiatives. He has held leadership roles with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the University of Texas at Austin Athletics Department and has volunteered for the U.S. Olympic Committee, serving as a medical officer for five international multi-sport events.
Chassay earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; an Executive Healthcare Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas; and a Master of Education degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He is passionate about improving chronic diseases related to insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity. Chassay and his wife Kimberly have two sons and reside in Fort Worth.
As an alum of the Jindal School, I look forward to serving on the Dean’s Advisory Council and bringing my new and exciting current industry work back into an educational background.
Carrie Hunter
Head of Talent Acquisition
Ericsson North America
Carrie Hunter serves as the head of talent acquisition for Ericsson North America, headquartered in Plano. Her background includes recruitment leadership experience across multiple tech companies over the span of 25 years.
Prior to joining Ericsson, Hunter was the global talent acquisition director for university and diversity recruiting at Texas Instruments, where she supported the company’s bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral-level resource needs by driving TI’s university-recruiting programs and strategies across its partner campuses. She also worked to advance diversity hiring.
Previously she worked at Dell as diversity- and university relations leader for North America and, earlier, in Latin America building out Dell’s Mexico customer support office.
Gupta holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University and a Master’s degree in computer science from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Hunter has a particular interest in supporting young professionals in their early-career development and in fostering programs that attract and retain diverse industry talent. She has run many programs geared toward achieving success in this area. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and has called North Texas home since 1998.
I’m thrilled to be a part of the Dean’s Advisory Council representing Ericsson. I’ve spent much of my recent career on the UTD campus and look forward to collaborating with my fellow Council members as we provide important industry input and support of the Jindal School of Management.