Reggie Aggarwal

Reggie Aggarwal, Founder & CEO, Cvent. Reggie is the CEO and Founder of Cvent, the world’s largest provider of event management technology. He has led the company from a two-person startup to a 950-person company that has helped manage 350,000 events in 90 countries. In addition, through the Cvent Supplier Network, the company’s free online marketplace that connects meeting planners with venues, thousands of Cvent customers will send $5.5 billion in group business to hotels and venues in 2012.
In July 2011, Reggie led the company’s first round of funding in over a decade—a $136 million investment—which, according to the Wall Street Journal, is the biggest U.S. software funding deal since 2007 and the largest in the history of the events technology industry. Reggie was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year for Greater Washington in 2010, selected as one of Washingtonian Magazine’s 100 Top Tech Titans in 2011, and named a rising star of Washington by Forbes Magazine. MeetingNews also named him one of the 25 most influential people in the $250 billion dollar meetings industry.
Reggie is Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Indian CEO High Tech Council (now the DC Chapter of TiE), which was described by the The Washington Post as “maybe the singularly most successful association in the past decade.”
In addition, Reggie was appointed by the Governor of Virginia to be Chairman of the Chief Information Officers Advisory Commission, and he has served on the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, Inova Healthcare System, and the DC Chamber of Commerce. He has a BS degree from the University of Virginia, a Juris Doctorate from Washington and Lee University Law School, and an LLM (post-law degree) from Georgetown University Law School.