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Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: REGGIE AGGARWAL

FOUNDER AND CEO, CVENT, McLEAN

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: REGGIE AGGARWAL

FOUNDER AND CEO, CVENT, McLEAN

//August 30, 2023//

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is a market-leading meeting, events and provider based in . Originally trained as a lawyer, Cvent CEO Aggarwal received degrees from the University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University and Georgetown University Law Center.

But he was seduced from the law by events management. After staging several hundred events as president of the Indian CEO Network, he started Cvent in 1999, riding the dot-com boom. In 2013, Aggarwal took Cvent public, and in 2016, it was bought by Vista Equity Partners for $1.6 billion and went private again. In 2021, Cvent became public once more, and in March, private equity firm Blackstone announced it would acquire the company for about $4.6 billion.

During the pandemic, Aggarwal shifted in-person to virtual gatherings and, later, to hybrid . In 2022, Aggarwal was inducted into the Washington Business Hall of Fame.

Cvent employs about 4,800 people, with more than 820 in Virginia. Its technology has assisted with the management of more than 5 million events.

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