Portfolio Record · Mumbai, India Est. 2016 — Present
Product · Ops · BD

Ashitosh
Gupta

Product Manager · Business Development · Cross-Functional Ops

"I've supported customers, built products, hired teams, and closed deals. That's why I know how a business actually works end to end."

$0M+ Product revenue owned
0+ People hired, 500+ interviews
$0K+ Consulting sales closed
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The Arc
Aug 2016
AMC Operations
Om Industries
Mar 2017
Web Solutions Specialist
Newfold Digital
Nov 2018
Senior Product Manager
Packt Publishing
Mar 2021
HR & Ops Lead
Free Pads India (concurrent)
Mar 2025
Co-Founder
Cross Sphere Solutions
Flagship Entry

Owned a 69-product portfolio, personally.

Five years at Packt Publishing, sourcing authors, shaping ideas, and driving go to market for every title myself.

Senior Product Manager
Packt Publishing
Nov 2018 — Nov 2023 · Mumbai

Personally managed 69 published products (63 unique titles) end to end: finding and signing authors, shaping the concept, and driving marketing and product visibility across channels, with a small team supporting execution. No title moved without my hand in it.

$0MTotal revenue
0Units sold
0Avg. rating / 2,875
0Products, 63 titles
Category Creation

Identified Roblox as an emerging content gap and pushed it into the catalog. Between Coding Roblox Games Made Easy (Jan 2021) and Mastering Roblox Coding (Aug 2022), the category generated roughly $109K in revenue, becoming the second highest revenue generating category in the catalog within about 18 months of launch.

Flagship Title

Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity, the single highest grossing title of the portfolio: $187K revenue, 9,240 units sold, 4.6 rating.

"Exceptional impact opening new markets, Photoshop, Game Design, and Roblox. No one in the organization manages author relationships like Ashitosh. Titles have averaged 123 units each over the past 7 months."

Paraphrased from internal leadership feedback, Packt Managing Director, Dec 2021

Also exceeded per-product revenue targets by 178% on average ($53K actual vs. $19K goal) and grew market share by 4% across gaming, iOS, web, and power-user domains. Promoted four times in five years.

Category Creation Author & Stakeholder Management Resource-Constrained Execution Niche GTM
Current Chapter

Co-founding a cross-border consultancy.

Guiding startups and SMEs through company formation, market entry, and expansion.

Co-Founder, Global Business Setup & Expansion Specialist
Cross Sphere Solutions
Mar 2025 — Present · Mumbai

Co-founded a business consultancy from zero, designing service packages, pricing, and delivery workflows for company formation and market entry products across the US, UAE, and Singapore. Own strategy, marketing, sales, and client advisory end to end.

$0K+Setup sales closed
$0K+Add-on services
0%+Margin improvement
0%Faster execution
Coverage

UAE Mainland and Freezone (including Mainland incorporations), plus US and Singapore entity setups. Add-on services span bank account opening, corporate tax registration, VAT registration, insurance, and accounting.

Also built a multi-country partner network of CAs and channel partners to standardize execution, and a no-code client engagement automation system (Google Sheets, Make, WATI/Interakt, Gmail) for lifecycle follow ups.

Market Entry Strategy Client Advisory Partner Networks Consultative Sales
Cross-Functional Ops

Built the people function from zero.

While running a $2M product portfolio at Packt, in parallel.

Partnership, Recruitment & Supply Chain Head
Free Pads for India · NPO
Mar 2021 — Present · Pan India

Built and led HR and operations for a national menstrual health initiative: hiring, supply chain, events, and fundraising outreach, run with a scalable, low dependency model. Ran this concurrently with the full-time product role at Packt Publishing from 2021 to 2023, the clearest proof of range and capacity on this page.

0+People hired
0+Interviews run
0Menstruators reached
0+People educated

Led a 32-member cross-functional team spanning supply chain, events, and fundraising across 22 locations, and developed a sustainable fundraising model projected to scale monthly contributions to Rs. 2 lakhs.

Hiring at Scale Process Design Supply Chain Pan-India Ops
Where It Started

Support and operations, first.

The grounding that shaped everything after.

Web Solutions Specialist
Newfold Digital · Mar 2017 — Nov 2018

Brands: BigRock, HostGator, ResellerClub. Sat on the front line of customer problems for major web hosting brands, the foundation for understanding what customers need before building for them.

Built knowledge base content that reduced ticket volume, and launched a lead-gen initiative within support that drove roughly Rs. 5.7 lakhs in average monthly revenue.

AMC Operations
Om Industries · Aug 2016 — Mar 2017

Managed Annual Maintenance Contract operations for Indian Railways: inventory management, AMC scheduling, worker and vendor coordination, and payment clearance.

Real operational accountability from day one, the starting point for a career built on owning the whole problem.

Proof

What people say after working together.

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Rick Battagline
Software Engineer, Author, Founder, Game Developer. Worked with Ashitosh on the same team.
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"His efforts to bring my book to completion were heroic." Gave his highest possible recommendation.

— Rick Battagline
Esta Lessing, CBAP®
Lead Business Analyst, Founder. Ashitosh was her client at Packt.
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Supported her at every stage as a first-time author. Thoughtful, professional, and clearly knows the publishing business.

— Esta Lessing, CBAP®
Aristeidis Bampakos
Angular Google Developer Expert, Published Author, Speaker.
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One of the most dedicated professionals he's worked with. Strong attention to detail and juggles multiple tasks with ease.

— Aristeidis Bampakos
Capability

Four pillars, one operator.

Product & Portfolio

Product lifecycle management, roadmap development, go-to-market strategy, launch strategy, category creation, revenue forecasting, A/B testing, Agile & Scrum.

Business & Sales

Market research, market entry strategy, cross-border business development, client advisory, consultative sales, compliance advisory.

People & Ops

Hiring and recruitment at scale, interview process design, team leadership, supply chain operations, vendor management, process design.

Tools

Jira, Power BI, data analytics, Google Sheets, and the systems built around them to keep cross-functional teams moving.

Background

From railway contracts to a $2M product portfolio.

I started my career managing AMC operations for Indian Railways at a small firm: inventory, scheduling, vendor management, payments, all hands on. From there I moved into tech support for major web hosting brands under Newfold Digital, where I learned what customers actually struggle with before I ever tried to build for them.

That grounding shaped everything after: five years personally owning a 69-product portfolio at Packt Publishing, building an HR and ops function for a national NPO in parallel, and now co-founding a business consultancy helping companies expand across borders. Different domains, same throughline. I get close to the problem, then build the thing that solves it.