CEO at BirdEye
Palo Alto, California
TechStars
Advisor
San Francisco Bay Area
RingCentral
Chief Product Officer
2011 to 2013
San Francisco Bay Area
Monster
Vice President, Sales
2010 to 2011
Yahoo!
Director, Products
2005 to 2008
Doostang
Advisor
2009 to 2009
Palo Alto, CA
Nortel Networks (and Bay Networks)
Software Engineer
1998 to 2000
BirdEye Inc.
Co-founder CEO
Palo Alto, CA
RingCentral
Vice President, Products
2011 to 2011
San Mateo, CA
Yahoo!
Senior Director, Products
2008 to 2010
UTStarcom
Director, Sales & Marketing
2002 to 2005
UTStarcom
Distinguished Engineer
2000 to 2002
Harvard Business School
Executive Education
London Business School
MBA, Finance, International Business, GPA 3.96/4
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GPA 9.3/10
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
MBA, Finance, International Business, GPA 3.96/4
Springdales School, New Delhi
What company does Naveen Gupta work for?
Naveen Gupta works for TechStars
What is Naveen Gupta's role at TechStars?
Naveen Gupta is Advisor
What industry does Naveen Gupta work in?
Naveen Gupta works in the Computer Software industry.
Who are Naveen Gupta's colleagues?
Naveen Gupta's colleagues are Luyao Zhang, Myra Xiong, Aron Kurzinski, Chelsea Sullivan, Sarah Bennett, Varun Wadhwa, Raj Sheth, Daniel Pattison, M. Dietz, and Taran Nandha
📖 Summary
Advisor @ TechStars Advise TechStars cloud startups San Francisco Bay AreaChief Product Officer @ RingCentral Successful $1B IPO in 2013. One of fastest growing SaaS companies. Increased customers from 150K to 300K, revenue from $60M to $120M+, hired top talent from Yahoo, Google, Apple. Ran product management, design, and marketing across US, China and Russia. From 2011 to 2013 (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaVice President, Sales @ Monster Monster acquired Yahoo HotJobs for $225M in 2010. Joined Monster's executive team. Ran sales strategy for $600M North America Business. From 2010 to 2011 (1 year) Director, Products @ Yahoo! Directed product teams across listings, search and media businesses. Launched several industry leading innovative products e.g. Smart Ads, Turbo Listings, R.E.A.L search, social media, monetization, ad optimization. Filed 2 patents. From 2005 to 2008 (3 years) Advisor @ Doostang Social networking community for recent grads and students at elite universities. Started at Harvard, MIT and Stanford. Company got acquired by Universum Group, Sweden. From 2009 to 2009 (less than a year) Palo Alto, CASoftware Engineer @ Nortel Networks (and Bay Networks) Developed routing software. President's award for technical excellence From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Co-founder CEO @ BirdEye Inc. BirdEye is the leading Customer Experience platform that enables businesses to acquire and retain customers. Businesses can a) proactively listen to their customers across channels (review sites, social media, surveys, etc), b) acquire new customers by promoting their good reputation across the web, social media, search engines, c) retain customers by quickly addressing their in-moment experience using NLP (natural language processing), and d) staying ahead of competitors by getting an inside view into their competitor's customers.Our team (Yahoo, Google, Amazon alumni) has created an innovative platform and we're scaling rapidly (50,000+ businesses from SMBs to F1000, 600+ agencies, 200M+ reviews). We're backed by who's who of silicon valley (Marc Benioff from Salesforce; Jerry Yang from Yahoo; Rob Theis from DocuSign, HubSpot; Clara Shih, BOD Starbucks; Gokul Rajaram from Google; Kevin Weil from Instagram; Ellen Levy from LinkedIn). We are hiring rockstars in all departments. If you're excited about scaling a SaaS business in $10B+ industry, find me at [email protected] Palo Alto, CAVice President, Products @ RingCentral Re-imagined business communications with mega trends in cloud, mobility, big data. Launched industry-first business SMS. One business number for voice, cloud-fax, SMS. Designed consumer grade experiences on touch devices with presence, SMS.Pre-IPO startup backed by Sequoia, Khosla and Cisco. Promoted to CPO in Dec 2011. From 2011 to 2011 (less than a year) San Mateo, CASenior Director, Products @ Yahoo! Full P&L responsibility of $100M HotJobs business unit. Ran strategy, user experience design, product management, marketing & business partnerships. Also led product innovation in Search Advertising, Yahoo Autos, Yahoo Travel, Yahoo Shopping. Top 5% of senior leaders. 2009 Presidents club. Nominated for 2008 Yahoo superstar. From 2008 to 2010 (2 years) Director, Sales & Marketing @ UTStarcom Ran strategic sales & marketing for Broadband division ($1B revenue). Managed $100M major accounts in US (ATT, Verizon) and Europe (Versatel, DT, Tiscali)Promotions: Manager, Sr. Manager, Director From 2002 to 2005 (3 years) Distinguished Engineer @ UTStarcom Software architect. Managed engineering teams across US, India and China.Promotions: Sr. Engineer, Technical Lead, Distinguished Engineer From 2000 to 2002 (2 years)
Introversion (I), Sensing (S), Thinking (T), Perceiving (P)
1 year(s), 10 month(s)
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