Gaurav Gupta

Principal
Country Head, India 

As a Principal and Country Head for Everest Group in India, Gaurav Gupta has over ten years of management consulting and sourcing experience. With reliable insights into strategy development, operations improvement, organization design, and performance management, he is able to quickly crystallize issues, articulate solutions, and establish sourcing programs to create and sustain long-term value. He has extensive experience across India and North America, working with leading financial services organizations, as well as clients in the hi-tech, commodities, manufacturing, and retail sectors.

Most recently, Gaurav led an Everest team that completed the development of an offshore vendor strategy for a Top-10 US Bank, covering a variety of sourcing models. He also helped the client develop market comparables for IT and business processes offshored to leading offshore and international suppliers. His other experience at Everest includes developing an outsourcing strategy for order-to-cash functions for one of the world’s largest health and hygiene companies, working with a leading hi-tech manufacturer to successfully establish a sole-sourced relationship to offshore several sales support functions, and helping a global commodities major to evaluate sourcing opportunities in the area of sales administration. Through these engagements, Gaurav has achieved deep sourcing-lifecycle expertise from developing a sourcing strategy to following through with transition and governance.

Gaurav is also one of Everest’s thought leaders in the area of captive centers. He is a contributor to the firm’s intellectual property development initiatives in this area and has collaborated with the senior leaders of two Fortune 100 clients to develop strategies to make captive operations deliver value beyond cost savings.

Before joining Everest Group, Gaurav was a Relationship Manager with Progeon Limited (now Infosys BPO), where he developed and managed Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) relationships with financial services clients operating across the US, UK, and Europe. He assisted clients in navigating the entire lifecycle of an offshoring program, including introducing the global services model, targeting and prioritizing outsourcing options, and executing the outsourcing strategy.

Before joining Progeon, Gaurav was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company in New Delhi, India. At McKinsey & Company, he worked several strategy, operations, and organization engagements. These included a market-entry strategy for a leading healthcare company, a sourcing strategy for a large global retailer, a growth strategy for an emerging Indian pharmaceutical company, and the post-merger integration of another pharmaceutical company. Gaurav also reduced operating costs by more than 10% for an US$800 million automotive firm by defining sourcing strategies in a purchasing and supply chain management initiative. Gaurav headed the launch team of the Indian School of Business (ISB) established by McKinsey & Company, the Wharton School, the Kellogg School of Management, and the London Business School.

Gaurav holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from St. Stephen’s College in New Delhi, India.