Puneet Gupt

CEO

Delhi, India26 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led digital transformation at Times Internet.
  • Successfully launched NewsPoint with 100 million users.
  • Active angel investor in diverse tech sectors.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a digital business leader with expertise in media, fintech, and growth strategies.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

P&l ManagementProduct ManagementBusiness DevelopmentSales Management

Other Skills

Growth HackingDigital MarketingPartnershipsTeam ManagementStrategic AlliancesGo to Market StrategyArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business StrategyProduct DevelopmentMobile ApplicationsStart-upsOnline MarketingCompetitive IntelligenceAnalyticsWeb Content

About

I build, grow, optimize and invest in digital businesses. As the COO of Times Internet, India's largest digital products company, I am fortunate to build and drive hyper growth for multiple category-leading businesses including those in media & media tech, ad tech, fintech, gaming, loyalty, B2B SaaS and classifieds through a team of high calibre, ambitious and driven professionals. These businesses monetize through advertising, reader payments, subscriptions and transactions.  At Times Internet, I have driven two transformation journeys - the first being a technology and culture-led transformation that changed Times Internet from just being the digital arm of a large news organization to a nimble, hungry, digital startup and the second being the currently underway AI-led business transformation using AI and Machine Learning to unlock new opportunities, enhance user experience, optimize efficiency and drive innovation. I speak both tech and exec. My early career roles in coding, product management and growth hacking have taught me the levers of product-led growth. In the last 10 years, I have leveraged those along with sales, partnerships, corp dev and M&A to drive outcomes on market share, revenue and profitability. I have a BTech from IIT Delhi and an executive MBA from IIM Calcutta.  I am also an active angel investor. My investments span health tech, media tech, nutrition & wellness and B2B commerce. I enjoy meeting new people and hearing new perspectives. Professional Skills Growth Hacking | Strategic Planning | P&L Management | Corporate Development | M&A | Revenue Management  | Product Management | Digital Marketing | Go-To-Market | Business Development | Partnerships | Product Analytics | Go to Market Strategy | Loyalty & Retention | Reader Revenue Models

Experience

26 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Times internet

3 roles

Chief Operating Officer, Times Internet

Promoted

Dec 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

COO & Business Head, News

Promoted

May 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • P&L Head of a diverse set of news and infotainment businesses with different scale, priorities and life-cycle stage, with over 51% market share in user engagement and the single largest digital reach across any news & infotainment business in India.
  • Fortunate to be able to have both 1 to N and 0 to 1 experience in this role.
  • 1 to N
  • Led the Times of India digital business to multi fold revenue and user growth.
  • Turned around the Indian language news and content business through a change in product, content and sales strategy
  • Actively managed mobile and web products leading to deeper sessions and loyal users
  • 0 to 1
  • Launched NewsPoint, the news aggregator across 15 languages and hundreds of content partners and grew it to 100m users
  • Created win-win partnerships with OEMs for app pre burn and -1 screen and browser integrations
  • Established new lines of business across content niches (gadgets, recipes, entertainment, travel)
  • Influenced content and social strategies to attract and engage the millennials
  • Built a fantastic team of strategy, product, growth, technology and business development leaders to devise and execute strategies for user acquisition, engagement, retention and monetisation
  • Conceptualised and built an in-house mobile-app-user engagement, app install fraud detection and retention platform to deliver high double digit gains in acquisition costs, retention and life time value.
  • Received BCCL Chairman's Award for this platform
P&L ManagementProduct ManagementGrowth HackingDigital MarketingBusiness DevelopmentPartnerships

Vice President and Business Head, The Times of India Digital (Web & Mobile)

Mar 2012 – May 2016 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Managed the digital news and travel content portfolio of Times Internet across 11 brands including The Times of India as the Business Head. In this role, I was responsible for identifying opportunities, defining product vision and road map, building great digital products, taking them to market and making them category leaders across revenue, audience and engagement metrics.
  • Delivered aggressive audience, engagement and revenue growth through technology improvements and product-led-growth interventions
  • Unlocked value by streamlining products, teams and processes
  • Refined mobile products leading to increased downloads, better app store rankings and reviews
  • Built an A plus team with one of the highest retention rates in the industry
  • Developed alternate revenue streams
  • Represented the brand on various platforms
  • The Times of India is among the world's Top 10 English-language newspaper sites and the No.1 News site in India across web and mobile
Product ManagementDigital MarketingTeam ManagementBusiness Development

Angel investor

Angel Investor and Advisor

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

  • Conscent.ai (Mediatech)
  • Riyalto (B2B Commerce)
  • Plow Foods (Nutrition and Health)
  • Aha Taxis (Outstation Cabs) - Acquired
  • FirstHandle (O2O, OmniChannel Commerce US & India Focused) - Acquired
  • Pregbuddy (HealthTech, ShutDown)
  • Alpha Digital Health (HealthTech - Surge & Chiratae backed)

Various

Board Member

Jun 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 11 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Current - Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA)
  • Past - Cricbuzz, Haptik, Locovida, hCentive, Magicbricks, Gradeup

Unicon financial intermediaries private limtied

Business Head, Internet Broking

Jul 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Overall responsility of the Internet Broking business in terms of size, scale and profitability of the business
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Centralized Trading Desk
  • Product Management
  • Strategic Alliances
  • Superior Customer Value through better service delivery
  • Additional Responsibilities on
  • Internet Marketing for other Unicon businesses
  • Reputation Management
  • Centralized Cross Selling Initiatives

Hcentive inc

AVP & Head, Product Management

Dec 2009 – Jul 2010 · 7 mos

  • Set up the India Operations from scratch.
  • Online Marketing Plan and India budgets
  • Hiring a world class team
  • Product Management and Go to Market Strategy
  • Internet Marketing and Program Management
Sales ManagementProduct ManagementStrategic Alliances

Magicbricks.com

Product Head

Feb 2008 – Nov 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • At India's largest online real estate destination, and part of the TimesGroup, I was responsible for creating features that would make property seekers come back to the site again and property owners/intermediaries to receive the maximum response for their spends on the portal.
  • Developed customer engaging features
  • Grew portal traffic 30% quarter over quarter
  • Increased response to classified customers by 50% over 6 months
  • Launched new revenue enhancing products and inventories
Product ManagementGo to Market Strategy

Globallogic

Product Development Manager

Aug 2002 – Jan 2008 · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • Product Development Manager for multiple relationships responsible for delivery for US and European customers.
  • Grew key accounts 10 fold over 2 years
  • Owned gross margins
  • Managed attrition much below industry standards
  • Authored multiple award winning white papers
  • Handled distributed delivery teams across USA, Europe and India
  • Open Source and Web 2.0 Enthusiast
Product ManagementDigital Marketing

Aztec software

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2000 – Aug 2002 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Infosys technologies ltd

Software Engineer

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

B.Tech

Jan 1995 – Jan 1999

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Executive MBA (SMP)

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011

Ingraham Institute

Jan 1979 – Jan 1994

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