Manas Gupta

About Manas Gupta

I am a growth and strategy professional with 15+ years of experience across e-commerce, consumer internet, investor relations, and investment banking panning across India, London, and Hong Kong. I am currently building GobbleCube. GobbleCube is a purpose-built Revenue platform for Brands. It enables them to assimilate and enrich data from multiple sources (marketplaces, ops tools, benchmarking data etc), model and triangulate this data into byte-sized actionables for the entire team. This ensures that leaders have full visibility into revenue opportunities, potential leakages, and trends. Prior to embarking on this journey, I was a part of the core leadership team at Grofers/Blinkit for 6+years. I built out the analytics practice, data architecture, and replenishment design before moving to lead Investor Relations. As head of Investor Relations and Corp Dev, I worked closely with the CEO and the marquee investors to raise ~$500mn of equity capital and worked on a potential SPAC transaction. I also evaluated multiple investments and completed the acquihire of a high-performance tech startup. Before joining Grofers/Blinkit, I had worked as an Investment Banker across London and Hong Kong for 9+years.

Experience

1. CEO and Co-founder

   GobbleCube

   Aug 2022 — Present · India

   GobbleCube is a purpose-built AI-based Revenue platform for Brands, enabling them to solve core revenue problems like channel-level sales, pricing and promotions, inventory management, and cost of sales. In FMCG, revenue teams starting from top leaders to account executives spend hours on these issues, trying to get to root-causes they can act upon. Everyone uses their own unique approach based on their individual context and past experience. Now picture this: What if teams don’t have to do this drudgery everyday. GobbleCube seamlessly assimilates and enriches data from multiple sources (marketplaces, ops tools, benchmarking data etc), and then models and triangulates this data into byte-sized actionables for the entire team so that they can swing into action. And the best part? As leaders, you have full visibility into revenue opportunities, potential leakages, and trends. With GobbleCube, we bridge the gap from data to action, ensuring that your revenue teams are prioritizing execution over endless analysis. If you are interested to know more, drop us a line at c••••••@gobblecube.ai

2. Explore, Learn and Build

   Apr 2022 — Jul 2022

3. Core Leadership Team

   Blinkit

   Jan 2016 — Mar 2022

   As part of the Core leadership team, I had the opportunity to build and lead teams across multiple focus areas critical to the business lifecycle: - Corp Dev and Investor Relations: raised $500mn+ of capital across equity and debt - Expansion Growth: extended Blinkit footprint to Tier 2 cities - Replenishment (Product and Ops): designed, built and operated quick-commerce replenishment network across 400+ stores - Business Analytics: drove data-driven mindset in the initial days panning across data architecture and insights

4. Director

   Standard Chartered Bank

   Jan 2015 — Dec 2015

5. Vice President

   Macquarie Group

   Mar 2013 — Dec 2014 · Hong Kong

   Prop Arbitrage Trader

6. Vice President

   Credit Suisse, Hong Kong

   Jun 2011 — Feb 2013

   Equity Exotics Trader

7. Director

   UBS Investment Bank, London

   Feb 2011 — Jun 2011

8. Associate Director

   UBS AG, London

   Jun 2007 — Feb 2011

Education

• CFA Institute

  CFA Level 3, Finance

  2007 — 2009

Skills

• Electronic Trading
• Emerging Markets
• Financial Markets
• Options
• Risk Management
• Structured Finance
• Equity Trading
• Financial Analysis
• Investments
• Financial Modeling
• Commodity
• Proprietary Trading
• Investment Banking
• Trading
• Quantitative Finance
• Hedging
• Equities
• Portfolio Management
• Swaps