Guruprasad Puranik │Director

Guru has worked in the Sales, Key Account Management and Marketing functions across diverse categories over the last 17 years. He is especially interested in brand and business turnarounds, having participated and driven turnarounds in the food and the beverage categories. Guru has worked in the emerging markets of India and Indonesia and finds himself at home with the attendant ambiguity and uncertainties in these markets.

Guru is passionate about behaviour, behaviour change and habits formation often utilising the same in moving P&Ls forward. Being soft-spoken with high levels of empathy and having worked across cultures as diverse as India & Indonesia, Guru is also good at team building. This comfort with intangibles of insight, brands, cultures & people is what has helped Guru resolve some of the more complex problems in his career.

Guru is a physics graduate with a post graduation in Marketing & Finance from XLRI, Jamshedpur, India. On a personal side, Guru is an avid reader and passionate about yoga and meditation. Guru is delighted to have helped & learned from …