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Kunal Gupta

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Kunal Gupta is the India Country Lead at Reddit (from 2025), driving Reddit's growth, partnerships and community-ecosystem playbooks across the Indian market. He was previously AVP of Product & Growth Marketing at Paytm, a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group, and a data-science & strategy manager at American Express. ISB MBA.

Last updated Jun 15, 2026 by ATDb automated enrichment

Role
Country Lead, India
Company
Reddit
Based
Noida, Ontario, India
Years in industry
15 years

Bio

Kunal Gupta is the India Country Lead at Reddit (from 2025), driving Reddit's growth, partnerships and community-ecosystem playbooks across the Indian market. He was previously AVP of Product & Growth Marketing at Paytm, a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group, and a data-science & strategy manager at American Express. ISB MBA.

Career

  • AVP, Product & Growth Marketing

    Paytm · 2021–2025

  • Consultant

    The Parthenon Group · 2018–2019

  • Manager, Data Science & Strategy

    American Express · 2014–2018

Expertise & education

Expertise

growth marketingpartnershipscommunity growth

Education

  • Indian School of Business — MBA

Speaking topics

The future of publisher monetizationNative advertising and branded content at scaleFirst-party data strategies for publishersSustainable business models for premium mediaPublisher technology and the open web

Recognition

Notable achievements

  • Founded Polar, which grew to power native advertising for major premium publisher groups across North America and internationally
  • Successfully pivoted company from Polar Mobile (app development) to a leading sponsored content and native advertising platform
  • Expanded Polar's platform to incorporate first-party data and audience extension capabilities ahead of cookie deprecation
  • Established Polar as a recognized technology vendor among top-tier newspaper and digital media groups