Amit Kumar Gupta

CEO

Delhi, India20 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led creation of 17 successful digital portals.
Developed India's largest tech community with over a million users.
Bootstrapped India's first invite-only professional network.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Digital Product Leader with expertise in Media and Technology sectors.

Contact

tussion@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyProduct ManagementDigital StrategyCommunity BuildingNetworkingBusiness DevelopmentClient RelationsProject ManagementBusiness AnalysisFinancial Services

Other Skills

Acquisition StrategyAnalyticsBusiness HeadClient ManagementCommunity EngagementCommunity ManagementCompetitive AnalysisDigital MarketingDigital MediaDigital Vertical ProductsE-commerceEvent ManagementKnowledge ManagementManagementMarket Research

About

Experienced Business Head / Product Lead with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Have worked always in making something groundup. It was EmpowerDesktop for Timesjobs, then PeerPower.com then TechGig.com and then Economic Times Verticals.

Experience

20 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

12 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

The economic times

2 roles

Product and Tech Head, Economic Times Digital

May 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

Taking care of product and tech team at Economic Times. We have sub-brands such as ETMarkets, ETPanache, ETWealth, ETRise etc.

Product ManagementTech Team ManagementDigital Strategy

Business Head - Economic Times Verticals

Oct 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 8 mos

Business Head for Economic Times Digital Vertical Products. We have 17 portals which have been created from ground up and have become leaders in their respective industries either in terms of revenue or in terms of readership.
ETAuto, ETTelecom, ETRetail, ETCIO, ETRealty, ETHealthworld, ETEnergyworld, ETCISO, ETTech, ETBrandEquity, ETCFO

Business HeadDigital Vertical ProductsRevenue GenerationReadership GrowthBusiness StrategyProduct Management

Tbsl

2 roles

Product Head, TechGig.com

Dec 2010 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Noida

Conceptualized, Implemented and Managed TechGig.com which is India's largest technology community with over a million active registered techies. It is one of the most innovative products allowing the community to
1. Learn from each other through webinars, forums etc.
2. Compete with each other with coding contests, skill tests, custom challenges
3. Showcase their skills to peers and industry
At the last count, we did more than 400 webinars with average attendance of over 400 people for each of the online events.

Product DevelopmentCommunity EngagementWebinars ManagementProduct ManagementCommunity Building

Product Head, PeerPower.com

Dec 2007 – Dec 2010 · 3 yrs · Noida

Bootstrapped PeerPower.com which was India's first invite-only professional network. While Linkedin was in its early stages and did not have groups, company pages, jobs, news - PeerPower.com boasted off some of the cutting edge feature allowing users to publish their views in form of their own e-newspaper, exchange business card with their peers. In 2010, it had over 2 lakh high profile invite-only active members.

Product DevelopmentNetwork BuildingProduct ManagementNetworking

Accelerator group

Senior Manager

Sep 2005 – Jun 2006 · 9 mos

Managing client accounts – Boutique to Small I-Banking firms of US.
Engaged in acquisition process for a US based Technology company (around 1.1Bn USD revenue).

Client ManagementAcquisition StrategyBusiness DevelopmentClient Relations

Sapient

2 roles

Project Manager

Jun 2004 – Sep 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos

Project manager

Project Management

Senior Associate

Dec 2001 – May 2002 · 5 mos

I was responsible for doing Business Analysis, testing strategy for the multi-million project (Our client, is one of the largest hedge fund in US with assets under management more than USD 10 Billion) in financial services sector. We were making a business critical application for the client that will help them in trading and booking the trades. Financial instruments that have been handled are Fixed Income Securities, Derivatives -Options, Futures and Indexes. Responsibilities for Business Analyst included – understanding the functionality of the application, acting as liaison between technical team and the client (helping in requirement gathering and clarifications), giving training to the technical team on business and financial aspects etc. I was leading a team of 4.

Business AnalysisTesting StrategyFinancial Services