Recently, Mr. Gupta has led and managed teams to deliver working capital opportunities. His notable experience includes leading the reduction of about 30% in inventory for a European automotive Tier 1 supplier for their plants in Europe, Asia and the U.S. The program required working with a local logistics team in different plants to implement improvements in sales and operations planning and procurement processes. He also led the optimisation of inventory by about €100 million for the largest retailer and agricultural producer in Eastern Europe by working with 12 divisions of the client and creating bespoke plans for each business.

Mr. Gupta also led the inventory reduction by about 50%, including optimisation of distribution network at one of the biggest U.S.-based manufacturers of guitars and musical instruments; inventory optimisation for a large U.S. pharmaceutical company for five of their manufacturing units in U.S. and Europe, along with improvement in payables and receivables, resulting in working capital improvement by about $100 million; and footprint optimisation and product rationalisation for one of the biggest European contract manufacturers of home-care products, resulting in EBITDA improvement of about £30 million (included building complex models to run optimum scenarios in both unconstraint and constraint settings).

Additionally, Mr. Gupta is proficient in the use of data analytics using Excel, Access, SQL, Alteryx, Tableau and Spotfire to find and implement improvement opportunities.

Mr. Gupta earned a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Delhi University in India. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant (India), qualified Chartered Management Accountant (U.K.) and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in supply chain management from MIT. An Indian national, Mr. Gupta is fluent in English and Hindi.