Paankhuri Gupta

Paankhuri Gupta (CBS class of 2019) is the Head of Product for a zero to one initiative at Amazon. The initiative’s vision is to enable small-and-medium businesses - even those that don’t sell in Amazon's store - to grow their business with Amazon Ads. Paankhuri has hired and developed the product team from scratch, and successfully scaled the product from tens of small-and-medium businesses to thousands.

Before CBS she was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and an early team member at an energy startup that successfully discovered oil in Africa. With no technical background, she started an ambitious journey at CBS to land a technical product role, from taking undergraduate computer science classes and leading the Data Analytics Clubs at CBS as Co-President. After her personal hustle to land a technical product role, she not only understands what it takes to get the role, but also the skillset needed to become a top performer at a leading technology company to be entrusted to lead the vision and execution of a multi-million dollar business.