An academician at heart and a serial entrepreneur by profession Ankit Gupta is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, IIM-A and UCLA. He is computer engineer followed by an MBA from UCLA where he won the prestigious Larry Wolfen Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit in 2006. During his 15+ years of professional journey; he has founded three companies and successfully sold one in hospitality.

Today he heads Holostik Group, which is into diverse businesses like anti-counterfeiting technologies, packaging, chemicals, real estate, warehousing, bio-degradable products & digital technology with the core objective of “Creating a Better Tomorrow”. The group’s flagship company Holostik helps control the problem of counterfeiting across the world (catered in 95+ countries and helped 15,000+ brands) and in the process have saved close to 20+ Crore lives since inception.

Driven by the group’s objectives his new ventures are NaturTrust a compostable packaging company and Utopia Digitech – a digital solutions provider. With partners like Microsoft, Ashoka University, and Indian School of Business (ISB), Ankit is among the Board of Patrons for AIM Smart City Accelerator Program, where he is supporting and mentoring multiple start-ups.