About Us

Gupshup enables better customer engagement through conversational messaging. Gupshup is the leading conversational messaging platform, powering over 6 billion messages per month. Across verticals, thousands of large and small businesses in emerging markets use Gupshup to build conversational experiences across marketing, sales and support. Gupshup's carrier-grade platform provides a single messaging API for 30+ channels, a rich conversational experience-building tool kit for any use case and a network of emerging market partnerships across messaging channels, device manufacturers, ISVs and operators. With Gupshup, businesses have made conversations an integral part of their customer engagement success.

Meet the Team

Beerud Sheth

Beerud Sheth

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Beerud is the cofounder and CEO of Gupshup, the global leader in cloud messaging and conversational experiences. He previously founded and led Elance (now Upwork, a publicly listed company), the pioneer of online freelancing and the gig economy.

Ravi Sundararajan

Ravi Sundararajan

Chief Operating Officer

As the Chief Operating Officer, Ravi heads Product, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Support for GupShup. Under his leadership GupShup has grown to become the leading Cloud Messaging Platform that is being used by over 36,000 businesses to build conversational experiences and better engage with their consumers.

Amit Shrivastav

Amit Shrivastav

Chief Financial Officer

Amit heads the Finance, Legal & Secretarial Function at Gupshup. He brings with him around 16 years of rich work experience in the fields of Corporate Finance, Business Planning & Strategy, Capital Markets, Compliance & Financial Controls, Accounting, and Audit functions.

Kunal Patke

Kunal Patke

VP Engineering

Kunal, who heads the Engineering team, has over two decades of experience in leading teams involved in developing products in diverse technologies. Prior to Gupshup, he has held several Engineering Management positions at organizations like CMC and HCL America Inc.

Nirmesh Mehta

Nirmesh Mehta

VP Technology Architecture

Nirmesh is a technologist seeking to apply expertise in high-performance systems to solving difficult real-life problems. Coding is his first love though his quest to make successful products out of ideas have made him do customer support, market research, work with bureaucrats and everything in between.

Vishnu Nadella

Vishnu Nadella

VP TechOps

Vishnu has over 2 decade plus of experience in the IT industry with expertise in Global IT Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Enterprise Application and Digital transformation. Prior to Gupshup, he has held several IT leadership positions at organisations like Arisglobal, TiVo, Oracle and VMWare

Srinivas B Vijayaraghavan

Srinivas B Vijayaraghavan

VP Marketing

Srinivas has over 2 decades of experience in running marketing for high-growth technology companies and managing corporate marketing, product marketing and demand generation. Prior to Gupshup, he held marketing leadership positions with Qubole, Pluralsight, Mobileum and Tejas Networks

Ninad Takpere

Ninad Takpere

VP Sales

Ninad, who heads Enterprise Sales Team, has over 21yrs of leadership experience in effectively managing large teams across enterprise & retail Sales, Business Development & Strategic Alliance with reputed companies viz. Mswipe, FreeCharge, Times Internet Ltd, Rediff.com. He has been a successful entrepreneur with his own venture exit quite recently viz. Shopxie..

Manoj Pandey

Manoj Pandey

VP Customer Success

Manoj has more than two decades of rich and engaging experience in the software industry, with demonstrated excellence in Enterprise Application Consulting, Strategic Program Management, Services Delivery, Customer Success and Customer Advocacy. Prior to joining Gupshup, he held varied senior leadership positions with UiPath, Siemens Industry SW and SAP Labs