Ayush Gupta Email & Phone Number

Evanston, IL, US

Evanston, Illinois, United States

2Y MBA Candidate at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of ManagementFocus on analytics for technology product development, growth, and scalingClubs: Technology Club, FinTech Club, Data & Analytics Club, India Business Conference

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Friends of Books (Frob) is a family owned business helping budding authors with promotional events and connect corporates with distinguished speakers for employee workshops.Started Frob's Bengaluru (India) chapter and organised a series of book talks and reading sessions by noteworthy speakers, with 500+ in attendance.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Uni Cards is a Series A fintech startup backed by Access and Lightspeed, offering financial products such as loans, credit cards, and investments.
• Led analytics and launch for the new peer-to-peer lending platform
• Led 10 analysts and software engineers to execute the investor-borrower matching algorithm, balancing investor returns, risk of defaults, and platform fee
• Go-to-market for a new vertical with 3 credit card variants, including India’s first gold-reward card
• … Show more Uni Cards is a Series A fintech startup backed by Access and Lightspeed, offering financial products such as loans, credit cards, and investments.
• Collaborated with marketing, design, and creative teams to develop credit card discovery and application webpages

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Collaborated with UI/UX designers to launch 100+ multivariate A/B tests on loan pricing and repayment flexibility on the mobile app, identifying winners to boost interest revenue per borrower by 17%
• Scoped out a 6-month analytical program roadmap and led 4 analysts to develop features throughout the new loan lifecycle, prioritizing high-impact approval and pricing strategy
• Gained buy-in of CRO of India's 3rd largest non-bank lender on the viability of loan product's economics and… Show more
• Gained buy-in of CRO of India's 3rd largest non-bank lender on the viability of loan product's economics and digital-first credit risk assessment, securing a credit line to disburse loans over the following 12 months
• Led partnership and negotiations with a $2B insurance firm to provide value-added insurance services to Uni borrowers covering medical emergencies Show less

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Designed a new gamified engagement strategy for Uni's Buy-Now-Pay-Later cards, aligning market research with internal spending data to save 15% in rewards cost and boost month-on-month retention by 20%
• Led 2 analysts to develop a Python-based machine learning model predicting users' propensity to sign up for new products, increasing sales lead conversion by 12% and reducing the cost of customer acquisition

Gurgaon, India

• Indus Insights is a boutique analytical consulting firm with financial services clients in India, US, SEA, and the Middle East.Lending and Merchant Farming for India's 2nd Largest Payment Gateway
• Identified $85M annual small-and-medium-enterprises lending opportunity by developing IP on assessing credit eligibility using transaction volume
• Revamped clients merchant farming process by bucketing merchants on current engagement and potential to grow
• Coached customer support… Show more Indus Insights is a boutique analytical consulting firm with financial services clients in India, US, SEA, and the Middle East.Lending and Merchant Farming for India's 2nd Largest.
• Coached customer support agents to utilise insights from revamped dashboards and bring in incremental $40M in payment volumeSet-up Indus' model-audit sub-practice for a Vietnamese fintech
• Conducted in-depth interviews with client's data science team to identify gaps in credit model

Gurgaon, India

• Identified new revenue streams for Filipino fintech by interviewing partner mom-&-pop grocery stores and recognizing the need for a working capital line product, bringing in an annual $10M in fees and interest income
• Devised a cash flow lending model for a point-of-sale lender with 10K merchant partners across the USA to quickly identify loss-making credit-hungry segments, and readjust credit exposure to save $600K in defaults

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Filtrex Technologies is a research lab with a focus on developing new generation water filtration technologies
• Created novel water filtration materials by combining nanoparticles from rare-earth metals (such as Platinum, Gold, Silver) with activated carbon
• Performed comparative analyses to measure effectiveness to remove pharmaceutical and personal care waste from drinking water

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Technology, Chemical Engineering, Cgpa: 8.3/10

Activities and Societies: Counselling Sevice, Dance Club - Counselling Service IIT Kanpur (2015-18) - Organized the Orientation Program.

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