Arun Gupta

Current

• Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Shoppers Stop Limited

Past

• Business Head - Food & Beverages at Shoppers Stop
• Director - IT at Philips Electronics India Limited
• Senior Director - BT at Pfizer Limited

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Education

• NCST
• SIES College
• SIES School

Recommended

34 people have recommended Arun

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Retail

Websites

• Oh I See (CIO Inverted) Blog
• My Company

Arun Gupta’s Summary

Customer Care Associate & Group Chief Technology Officer at Shoppers Stop Retail Group.

Recognized as a “Business friendly” and strategic CIO, a leader in aligning IT and business. Featured by India's leading business newspaper Economic Times as “The CIO who never spoke Technology”.

Recognized in The Global CIO 50: IT Leaders Changing the Business World by Information Week, June 2009.

3 PC Quest Enterprise Awards and 2 Network Computing EDGE Awards in May 2009 recognizing some of our initiatives

Recipient of the CIO Bold 100 Awards 2008 organized by CIO Magazine, IDG Group

Winner of the Storage Award 2008 at the CIO 100 Symposium held in September 2008.

Recipient of the CIO Giant 100 Awards 2006 organized by the CIO Magazine, an IDG publication

Recipient of "Best Technology Usage" award from India Retail Forum, 2007

Member CIO Executive Council, CIO Magazine India
Member Advisory Board of CIO Magazine (2005-2009),
CSI CIO Club, CIOL CIO Club, and IMRB CTO Panel.

Providing Business IT leadership to companies across different verticals for the last 15 years. Focus on driving technology and business enablement with improved customer satisfaction while reducing operational IT budgets.

Speaker on varied topics on IT and business internationally

Arun Gupta’s Specialties:

Aligning IT with business
Turn around IT organization and improve effectiveness
Managing teams with focus on outcomes
Strategic Outsourcing and cost management
Business Process Improvement & Organizational Efficiency and Effectiveness
Domain expert: Pharmaceuticals, Retail

Additional Information

Arun Gupta’s Websites:

• Oh I See (CIO Inverted) Blog
• My Company

Arun Gupta’s Interests:

IT and business alignment Business Value of IT Process improvement

Arun Gupta’s Honors:

The Global CIO 50: IT Leaders Changing the Business World by Information Week, June 2009
3 PC Quest Enterprise Awards in May 2009 for 3 projects
2 Network Computing EDGE Awards in May 2009 for 2 projects
Bold CIO 100 Award at CIO 100 by CIO Magazine, IDG Media in 2008
Storage Award 2008 at CIO 100 by CIO Magazine, IDG Media in 2008
Best Technology Usage award by India Retail Forum in 2007
Giant CIO 100 Award by CIO Magazine, IDG Media, in 2006
Invited keynote speaker globally in IT and industry forums

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