Anoop Gupta

About Anoop Gupta

Over 16 years of TMT sector experience in Business Development, Consulting, Engagement Life cycle management, Project Economics, Contract management, Customer Due diligence, Product Development, Project Management, Technical presales, focussing on Emerging Technologies like Advanced connectivity solutions, SATCOM, 4G & 5G Core Network, NFVi & Edge Infrastructure, IMS, OSS/BSS,AI/ML, GenAI, Agentic AI, Application Modernization, Data Engineering exposed to E2E Telecom landscape of Global Tier 1 CSPs & Indian Public sector working with leading telecom product company like C-DOT & Ericsson. Holds several industry certifications in Telco Stack with academic background from NIT Surathkal (B-Tech) & IIT Delhi (MBA).Holding the Account P&L which involves following activities Commercial & Customer ownership, E2E - Lead Generation, Scope Negotiation, Writing Proposals/ Presentations, Customer and Engagement due diligence, all documentation & compliances, owning the customer relation, invoicing, payment collection etc. Career Highlights ->Led several Cross domain 4G to 5G Transformation Engagements & Cloud Native infrastructure transformation projects as End-to-End Lead Architect. This involves full stack Ericsson’s product suites covering Packet Core, UDM, IMS, OSS, BSS, NFVi, Orchestration, Network Management etc->Delivered complex Communication solutions to Indian public sectors like BSNL, MTNL, Indian Defence etc through C-DOT & Global Tier-1 Telcos Like KPN, Optus, Telefonica for Ericsson->Been part of several Innovation Task forces & Technical steering committee, which includes - IoT/ M2M platform modernization task force, Developer advocate for CERT IN Security Data analytics framework, Tender evaluation committee for data centre modernization, DevOps Enablement for NFVi & 4G EPC->Multi-skill covering Product Development, Solution architecting & consultative selling in CDOT & Ericsson respectively, covering full stack Telco product suites->Engaged in various forward looking industry evolution initiatives of Cloud RAN, Private 5G, 5G Enterprise Use cases etc. Active member of Ericsson Innovation forum. Conducted multiple technology training & evangelism sessions in Ericsson.

Experience

1. Associate Director

   PwC India

   Sep 2024 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   I work in the Advisory One consulting Line of Service in PwC with focus on Growing the Telecom Transformation & Emerging technology practice via• Conducted market research to identify business process/Sector specific use cases for 5G,Edge,Gen AI, Metaverse etc.• Drafted compelling market messaging for emerging technologies for targeted business process and industry sectors.• Engaged in presales cycle (RFP / RFI) to understood the ask and construct the proposed solution.• Designed the GTM strategy, market facing collaterals. • Thoroughly understood the As-Is state of client(s)’ operations and Conceptualized the ideal To-Be state by identifying the right transformation levers.• Drafted the Digital transformation roadmap and present the capacity/cost saving via business case.In this role, I am working at the intersection of Business strategy, Technology Consulting and Execution - helping companies rethink how they operate, Digitally Transform and future proof their businesses

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Technology Management

  2013 — 2016

• National Institute of Technology Karnataka

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

  2004 — 2009

Skills

• Marketing Communications
• Full Sdlc
• Financial Analysis
• Ip Multimedia Subsystem
• Unix Shell Scripting
• C
• C++
• Network Administration
• Ngn
• Technology Integration
• Technology Management
• Customer Engagement