About Me
My name is Abhinav Gupta and I am General Manager at Amazon Ads leading an organization that comprises of Product, Engineering and Program Management. Earlier I have headed Product Management at Amazon Alexa Local Voice Control, BlueCat Networks and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. I have worked at two start-ups – Ravello (acquired by Oracle) & Jasomi Networks (acquired by Nuance) – and large organizations (Amazon, Oracle Cloud, Cisco, IBM Global Business Services, BlackBerry) in Product Management, Marketing, Strategy Consulting, Product Development across US & Canada.
I have a MBA in Marketing & Strategy from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, a MS in Computer Science from University of Calgary and a BE in Electronics & Comms. Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology. I was a Dean’s Scholar (top 5% of class) at UCLA, an Alberta Ingenuity and iCORE scholar at University of Calgary and the University Gold Medalist at Birla Institute of Technology.
I have a MBA in Marketing & Strategy from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, a MS in Computer Science from University of Calgary and a BE in Electronics & Comms. Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology. I was a Dean’s Scholar (top 5% of class) at UCLA, an Alberta Ingenuity and iCORE scholar at University of Calgary and the University Gold Medalist at Birla Institute of Technology.
Professional
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As a product strategist, I have brought new products to market at Amazon Ads, Amazon Alexa (Local Voice Control for Alexa Auto & FireTV), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Ravello on Bare Metal Cloud), Ravello Systems (Network & Security SmartLab), Cisco (C891-24X) and BlackBerry (Mobile Voice Solution) building multi-million dollar run-rate from scratch. As an experienced Product Manager, I have managed P&Ls worth $580M covering 60+ products – and led Y/Y portfolio revenue growth.
I have presented at business & technical conferences and have been featured in professional magazines (SDXCentral, PacketPushers). I am also an inventor, and have seven patents – US 8559960 , US 8452291, US 8208931, CA 2729502, CA 2694447, EP2348749A1, CA2721475 |
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Personal
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I live in Oakville, Canada with my wife Pratikhya & son Neil.
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Pratikhya
Pratikhya works as a Biotech Scientist at Dalriada Corporation and has published many papers in reputed biotech journals featuring her research. She likes to make jewelry as a hobby.
Pratikhya works as a Biotech Scientist at Dalriada Corporation and has published many papers in reputed biotech journals featuring her research. She likes to make jewelry as a hobby.
Neil
Neil is an awesome kid. He likes to jump, play and run (and do other things that 7 year olds do!).
Travel
Pratikhya & I love to travel. Here are the countries that we have been to :
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