Mr. Beerud Sheth is the Co-Founder and CEO, Gupshup, the world’s leading conversational messaging platform for commerce, marketing, and support. He started his career atWall Street working at Citibank and Merrill Lynch, building financial models for securities and later structured and traded mortgage bonds and derivatives. Mr. Sheth graduated from IIT Bombay and  completed his M.S. (SM programme) in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1994. He is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of two unicorns. One of them- Elance, now Upwork, is publicly listed and the other one is on its way. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Bombay and  mentors entrepreneurs through talks, podcasts, and personal interactions.