Akhil Gupta

About Akhil Gupta

Medium - https://akhilgupta123.medium.com/- Seasoned Top Management Executive having demonstrated success record into leading internet businesses of different sizes (0-1, 1-10 journeys)- Led Shine.com (HT Media company) as CEO to EBITDA profitability and transformed it to sustainable topline growth on YoY basis. Leveraged technology / data science and instrumented differentiated product offerings- Operated as CXO in growth journey of Healthkart over 5.5 years and contributed to its journey from 50 Cr to 700 Cr annual revenue. Led has Head of Growth, Product and Technology and turned-around multiple growth channels (online and offline)- Co-led due diligence & business transfer of Zigwheels (online auto discovery platform) to Cardekho during M&A- Digital expert with wide experience into P&L management, business modeling, digital marketing, product strategy, technology and operations- Extensive experience of leading and integrating teams into M&A, business restructuring and change management exercises- Wide experience of working in Europe (3+ years) and managing US & APAC stakeholders

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer

   Shine.Com

   Aug 2021 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Responsible for overall business strategy and operations for Shine.com - leading Job Portal in India. Transformed ailing business to a EBITDA profitable and instrumented revenue growth levers to sustainable growth YoY on back of data science & product innovations.Extensive experience of leveraging Data Science and LLM (Gen AI) to transform business model- Improved matching relevance of core industry use-cases from 20% to 65%, industry first. Validated at scale- Instrumented large scale text retrieval, customization and recommendations of free flow job descriptions and candidate resumes- Developing and implementing business strategy with LLM based solutions to enable value-creation for stakeholders (clients and business)Exploring partners to co-create recruitment value chain solutions for large enterprises - pls contact me at A••••••••@shine.com

Education

• Punjab Engineering College

  B.E., Electronics & Electrical Communication

  1997 — 2001

• INSEAD

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, General Management

  2014 — 2015

• Dayal Singh Public School, Karnal

  Class XII

  1991 — 1997

Skills

• Digital Strategy
• B2b Ecommerce
• Product Development
• IT Strategy
• Account Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Ooyala Integration
• Management
• Team Management
• Ios
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Saas
• Paypal
• Program Management
• Ad Tech
• Cloud Computing
• Competitive Intelligence
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Business Development
• Mobile
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Payment Gateways
• Social Commerce
• Project Portfolio Management
• Mobile Devices
• Facebook Api
• Scrum
• Certified Scrum Master Csm
• Web
• Competitive Analysis
• Start-Ups
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management