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Nishant Gupta

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Vice President, Chief Strategy, Transformation & Deployment, India & South Asia at PepsiCo
📍 Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Nishant is the Vice President of Strategy and Transformation at PepsiCo for India & South Asia. An alumnus of IIM Mumbai, he was recognized as a Top 25 global retail consulting leader in 2022. His background includes leadership roles at TCS, Accenture, and KPMG. Colleagues describe him as visionary, result-oriented, and a strategic thinker.

He has deep entrepreneurial experience, having co-founded Farmery.in, a direct-to-consumer dairy e-commerce business. He scaled the company to serve thousands of households daily by building a full-stack, farm-to-kitchen cold supply chain, showing a clear passion for building D2C businesses from the ground up.

Unique fact: He co-founded and built one of Indias largest fresh dairy e-commerce businesses, creating a tech-enabled supply chain delivering milk from farm to home in 24 hours.

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Experience
28 Years
Current Role
Vice President, Chief Strategy, Transformation & Deployment, India & South Asia
Job Level
Senior
Location
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
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Consumer & Retail Strategy
His career focuses on advising large consumer and retail companies. He actively shares insights on evolving Indian consumer mindsets and its implications for marketers.
Business Transformation
He has extensive experience leading high-impact transformation engagements and now heads the strategy, transformation, and deployment function for PepsiCo in India & South Asia.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Vice President, Chief Strategy, Transformation & Deployment, India & South Asia
PepsiCo
10-2021 - 12-2025
Partner- CPG & Retail- India, Middle East and Africa, Business Consulting
Tata Consultancy Services
9-2019 - 10-2021
Director Business Consulting Consumer Market
KPMG India
8-2015 - 7-2019
Co Founder and Director
www.farmery.in (D2C Dairy)
3-2012 - 8-2015
Principal Consumer Business
Accenture Strategy
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Education
1998 - 2000
PGDBM
Indian Institute of Management Mumbai
1992 - 1996
B Tech
Harcourt Butler Technical University
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