Experienced Perspectives. Practical Business Execution.
GOP brings together professionals whose experience can contribute to growth, commercial improvement, operational performance, investment readiness and value creation.
Who is on the GOP team? GOP is an operator-led collective of senior professionals, several of them from the IIM Calcutta Executive Programme, with 100+ years of combined hands-on operating experience across strategy, sales and business development, marketing, operations and supply chain, governance and investment readiness.
GOP is the growth consulting and strategy execution vertical of SBSSdigital. Engagement teams are chosen for each mandate and are named in the proposal.
Atul Saxena
Project Delivery Partner, GOP
25+ years in business transformation, value capture and creation, scaling operations and delivering profitable growth. Hands-on across consumer-facing product segments, media and IT. Builds and scales brands across digital and physical distribution channels, constructing target audiences to extend brand reach while optimising customer acquisition cost.
Has owned country-level commercial relationships with a leading e-commerce platform and global gift-card programmes for major technology brands, running operations across multiple international markets in parallel.
Works process-first and dashboard-based: every engagement is run as a managed-services programme, not an advisory one. At GOP he owns diagnostics and roadmaps and leads service delivery teams, with a focus on demand generation, brand building and go-to-market execution.
Mahaveer Upadhyaya
Project Delivery Partner, GOP
28 years of sales, marketing and P&L leadership across telecom, media, industrial and consumer sectors. Roles have included Apollo Tyres, Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting, Vodafone Essar, Reliance Communications, Idea Cellular, HT Media, Dainik Bhaskar, Kale Logistics Solutions, RR Kabel and, most recently, VP Sales and Marketing at a lighting company. Founder of a start-up.
MBA (Marketing Management), IIT Delhi; BE Mechanical Engineering (Distinction), Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli.
At GOP he works full-time on commercial excellence, value capture and new business development, and leads service delivery on client engagements.
The wider GOP collective
GOP's engagement teams also draw on senior professionals who are not named on this site. Their experience is described by capability.
Business Transformation, Governance and Investor Readiness
Multi-industry operating experience across several markets. Transformation design, board governance and preparation for investor discussions.
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Excellence
Manufacturing excellence, lean methods, new factory set-up and warehouse operations across industrial and consumer products.
Commercial and Growth Expertise
B2B digital commerce, CRM and revenue growth: commercial engines, new business and client relationships.
Sourcing and Merchandising
Marketing, business development, product development and sourcing in textiles and apparel.
Investor Readiness and Business Finance
What mid-market PE and VC investors require, and financial analysis for investment readiness.
Institutional credentials
Several members of the GOP collective are alumni of the IIM Calcutta Executive Programme. GOP is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by IIM Calcutta. Mahaveer Upadhyaya's qualifications are listed in his profile above. Other members have studied at engineering and management institutions including VJTI Mumbai, NMIMS and ISB Hyderabad.
Why this team
- Brands run, not only advised: senior roles at businesses in manufacturing, textiles, retail, media, telecom, lighting, logistics, fintech and finance.
- Domain spread: shop-floor operations, supply chain, commercial engines, marketing, governance and investor readiness.
- Manufacturing depth: GOP's practice leads have worked with 70+ manufacturers.
Former employers named in a profile are past roles of that person. They are not GOP clients and do not endorse GOP.
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