Margaret is an entrepreneur, social activist, and philanthropist. Margaret was the co-founder and COO of Apex CoVantage, a global IT services company, with over 6,000 employees worldwide at its peak, started in 1988 and sold in 2021. Driven by her passion to ensure a strong, progressive democracy, Ms. Gupta co-founded WinVirginia, a political PAC that help drive historic change in the state legislature in 2017, and WinDEM, a Federal PAC dedicated to extending the successful WinVirginia model to other states.

She also serves as President of the Gupta Family Foundation that supports organizations around the globe dedicated to helping disadvantaged people become self-reliant. In addition, she serves on the Boards of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Center for American Progress, and Global Camps Africa. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio and an MA in Political Science from the University of Michigan.