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    Piyush Gupta

    Piyush Gupta (He/Him)

    Chief Product Officer @sounding-board-1
    Sr. Partner PM @sigfig
    VP-Product @eko-india-financial-services
    Co-founder @routeguru

    VP of Products San Ramon Carnegie Mellon Unive...
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    Experience
    Sounding Board
    Sounding Board
    Chief Product Officer 2019 - 2021 (almost 3 years)
    I led the Product, Design, and Technology teams as the first leadership hire (6th Hire overall). Led the company through blitzscaling growth phase (20x Revenue, 10x People).... more
    SigFig
    SigFig
    Sr. Partner Product Manager 2017 - 2019 (about 2 years)
    A FinTech startup; $110M VC to be #1 Online Robo-Advisor for large Financial Partners

    Led large scale enterprise product platform team; Focussed on end-to-end customer... more
    Eko India Financial Services
    Eko India Financial Services
    VP - Product Management 2009 - 2014 (over 4 years)
    Western Union of India; FinTech startup; $12M VC; Invented number-only mobile-payments interface & an innovative 2-Factor auth. technology. Largest network of human ATMs;... more
    RouteGuru
    RouteGuru
    Co-founder, Chief Product & Engineering 2007 - 2009 (about 2 years)
    Google Maps of India; World's first 'Landmark Intelligent Directions' product. $500K Seed

    - Grew to 500K unique users, 20M web searches and 2.5M SMS queries annually
    -... more
    Accenture
    Accenture
    Software Engineer 2005 - 2007 (about 2 years)
    I worked as a software engineer and worked for two of the diamond clients of Accenture, British Petroleum and Telenor.

    After 1 year, I won an internal competition and... more
    Employee
    Accenture, Eko India Financial Services, RouteGuru, SigFig, Sounding Board
     
    About
    Achievements

    Co-invented world's 1st 'Landmark intelligent driving directions' technology. Google Maps eventually adopted. Head of Product two startups (FinTech & HRTech) and architected several pivots, scalable platforms and multiple patented innovations. Both of them serve millions of customers now.

    - Conceptualized, designed and developed world's first and cheapest GSM Fax machine under $150
    - Request.to accepted at VentureBridge PreSeed Accelerator at Carnegie Mellon University
    - Honored with James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University
    - Initiated and implemented Mobile Money platform for Govt. of India to disburse $120mn to 87K health workers annually.
    - Raised multiple grants from UN, and won several awards like World Summit Award (Abu Dhabi) and Vodafone Mobile for Good Award (India)
    - Started 1st company at University and created disproportionate wealth as a student.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Product Management Product Strategy User Experience Design Entrepreneur Agile Product Development Lean UX User Research Customer Development Business Strategy API Software Strategic Vision Data Analysis Product Roadmaps Product Marketing Product Design
    Locations
    Silicon Valley San Francisco Foster City
     
    Projects
    eDakia
    Email account for every citizen in India
    Product Design, Product Launch, Retail Distribution Network creation, Android SDK, Java, Ruby on Rails · I conceptualised the product and created a… · More
    Akshay Gupta
    With Akshay Gupta
    Request.to
    An alternative to expensive InMails built using twitter APIs
    Product Strategy & Vision, Product Design, User Validation, Wireframes & Mockups, Growth Hacking, Inbound Marketing, Ruby on Rails, Twitter… · More
    Akshay Gupta
    With Akshay Gupta
     
    Education
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