Ashish Gupta

Chief Executive Officer and President 1touch.io

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Ashish Gupta is Chief Executive Officer and President of 1touch.io, a sensitive-data intelligence company that helps large enterprises answer a deceptively hard question: what data do we actually hold, where is it, and which of it matters. Its Kontxtual platform uses machine learning to discover and classify data automatically across cloud, on-premises, and mainframe environments, then surfaces contextual insight about that data and prioritises what should be remediated first. The problem it addresses sits underneath most privacy, governance, and breach-response work, because none of those disciplines function without an accurate inventory. Gupta came to the company in November 2023 from Bugcrowd, where he spent six years as chief executive turning a crowdsourced vulnerability-disclosure service into a broader security platform, and his career before that was built in product and go-to-market leadership at enterprise infrastructure and data companies rather than in engineering.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer and President of 1touch.io since 14 November 2023, joining the board of directors at the same time.
• Chief Executive Officer of Bugcrowd from August 2017 until 2023, scaling the crowdsourced security company into a multi-product platform with customers across dozens of industry verticals and countries.
• Named Executive of the Year twice for his Bugcrowd leadership, taking gold in the 2020 International Business Awards Stevie Awards and silver in the Best in Biz Awards.
• Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Infoblox, running worldwide corporate and product marketing strategy and operations for the network-infrastructure company.
• Held marketing and business development leadership positions at Actian, Vidyo, and Microsoft earlier in his career, spanning data management, video communications, and platform software.

Professional Journey

Gupta’s early career was spent in strategy, marketing, and business development roles at Silicon Valley technology companies, including Microsoft and the video communications company Vidyo, and at Actian, the data management business. The through-line is enterprise infrastructure sold to technical buyers, and the discipline he built was in positioning complex products rather than in building them.

That path took him to Infoblox, the network infrastructure and DNS security company, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer with responsibility for worldwide corporate and product marketing strategy and operations. It was the role that moved him from functional leadership into the general-management orbit.

In August 2017 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Bugcrowd. Bugcrowd’s model is crowdsourced security: marshalling a global community of independent researchers to find vulnerabilities in customers’ systems, with the company sitting in the middle as the trust and triage layer. Gupta’s tenure was defined by the transition from a single service to a platform, adding products beyond the original bug bounty offering and broadening the customer base internationally. Industry award bodies recognised the result, naming him Executive of the Year with a gold Stevie in the 2020 International Business Awards and a silver in the Best in Biz Awards. He led the company for roughly six years before stepping down.

On 14 November 2023 he was named Chief Executive Officer and President of 1touch.io, taking a seat on its board of directors at the same time. Press coverage of the move framed it explicitly as a product-expansion hire: 1touch.io had strong underlying data-discovery technology, built by founder and chief technology officer Itzhak Assaraf, and was looking for a chief executive with a track record of turning a single capability into a multi-product platform. That is the same problem Gupta had worked on at Bugcrowd. Under his leadership the platform has been brought to market as Kontxtual, positioned not merely as a discovery and classification tool but as a system that adds context and prioritisation on top, and the company continues to target Fortune 500 enterprises with large, sprawling, and partly legacy data estates.

Education

No education could be established from any acceptable source for this profile. Aggregator listings associate him with Grinnell College, Stanford University, and the UCLA Anderson School of Management, but none of those claims could be verified against a primary or editorially controlled source, and they are not asserted here.