Puneet Gupta Email & Phone Number

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

San Jose, California, United States

Leading Cisco's charge to build a world leading forecasting analytics practice using transparent and causal AI approaches along with state-of-the-art Machine Learning methodologies from the fields of quantitative finance, econometrics, and supply chain to substantially augment Cisco's Global Planning function.

San Francisco Bay Area

Guiding investment strategy using an integrated global macro and technical/fractal model-based market forecasting methodology for private and institutional investment. THE ABSOLUTE RETURN, LLC, is an Investment Adviser registered in multiple states which provides comprehensive fee-based wealth management for individuals and high net-worth investors, and investment management for institutions through a family of actively managed portfolios and customized research.

San Jose, Ca

Led the Supply Chain Network and Commodity Analytics CoE to take Supply Chain strategy, Commercial negotiation, and decision heuristics to the next level by harnessing our pervasive data into sharper insights through predictive and prescriptive analytics that integrated interpretable machine learning approaches with optimization-based prescriptive production and network models.

San Jose, Ca

Responsible for thought leadership, sourcing strategy, and initiatives for the $1B EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Services) commodity at Cisco to provide industry leading cost and productivity cadence, to accelerate innovation, and to manage competitive and other risks from the supply base.

Led the Lean transformation of an NPI (New Product Introduction) Process to halve the cycle time of complex electromechanical hardware for wafer level testing of Intel’s products.Responsible for the development and high-volume ramp of complex test interface technologies and supplier eco-systems meeting cost, schedule, and technical requirements for Intel’s 60nm x86 Microprocessors and SOC/Chipset wafer-level test processes.

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed a New Product Introduction (NPI) Operation responsible for the design and manufacturing of 60 PCB and Package NPI’s per year required for providing chip design integrity feedback for 1st silicon debug of Intel’s products.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for the Sourcing and Supplier Management of Semiconductor Capital Equipment for Intel’s Flip Chip (Wafer-level Pb/Sn and Cu C4 Bump) fabrication process to meet Intel’s technology development roadmap and manufacturing needs.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for the technical aspects of sourcing and supplier management of Ion Implanter Equipment to meet Intel’s technology development and HVM requirements for front-end transistor fabrication.

M.S., Electrical Engineering

B. Tech., Electrical Engineering

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