Sachin Gupta is the Director of Government Business and Economic Development at Centranet, a subsidiary of Central Rural Electric Cooperative.
He is a member of the Oklahoma Broadband Expansion Council. Formed by House Bill 3363, the council has 14 members and is in an advisory role to the Oklahoma State Broadband Office to create recommendations for new policies and incentives. He is the chair of the Tribal Outreach Working group of the Fiber Broadband Association. He is a member of the Innovation and Business Opportunity Committee at NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association.
Over the last 18 years he has had a diverse career working in product management, business development and marketing for large government contractors. He has traveled to and worked with government officials in 32 different countries advocating for networked smart defense and security solutions. He has been a speaker at several domestic and international conferences and has talked about technical, legislative, and regulatory issues. He is well published in several broadband publications including Broadband Communities Magazin. He represents Cooperative Broadband Coalition (a coalition of 10 electric cooperatives) and advances its agenda at State and Federal levels.
He has a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Telecommunications Management from Oklahoma State University.