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Kushagra Gupta

Partner, Mumbai

Serves the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice, with a special focus on software / SaaS, digital strategy, people supply chain, and delivery operating models

About Kushagra

Kushagra is a partner at McKinsey’s Mumbai office and a member of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice in Asia. He has served multiple global IT service providers, digital specialists, offshore product development (OPD), and software R&D companies across strategy, at-scale delivery modernization and optimization, organization design, and business building.

Kushagra leads the B2B SaaS practice in India and also advises private equity companies and strategic investors on due-diligence projects and has supported some of the largest deals in this space.

Examples of Kushagra’s recent work include the following:

  • leading growth scale-up for vertical-specific SaaS startup
  • leading a delivery and operating model transformation for a top 5 global IT services player
  • diagnosing and developing a margin expansion strategy for a leading business process management company
  • leading a talent supply chain transformation for an OPD company to accelerate digital fulfillment
  • advising a leading PE client on due diligence for a US-based next-gen digital IT services company
  • advising a leading Indian conglomerate on mid-term strategy formulation in the high-tech defense, aerospace, and shipbuilding sector

Published Work

How to avoid the pitfalls of IT crowdsourcing to boost speed, find talent, and reduce costs,” McKinsey & Company, June 2018

Detection and prevention of botnets and malware in an enterprise network,” International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, May 2012

SaaS and the Rule of 40: Keys to the critical value creation metric”, McKinsey & Company, August 2021

The SaaS landscape – India and the Valley”, SaaSBoomi, February, 2022

Past Experience

Nomura
Senior business analyst

Education

Indian School of Business
MBA

London Business School
MSc, finance

VJTI, Mumbai University
BTech, computer engineering