About
Punchh provides a turn-key referral and loyalty service to restaurants to harness the power of word of mouth to put more butts in seats.
We believe that food is social and that word-of-mouth is the key mechanism for restaurants to acquire customers. Our patent-pending inside-out marketing approach harnesses, incentivizes and measures the word-of-mouth to deliver 4X the engagement (compared to traditional loyalty programs) at 1/4 the cost.
Founders
Jitendra Gupta is the CEO and co-founder of Punchh. Previously Jitendra founded and sold SezWho, a widely distributed and used consumer/social media ratings and reputation product. Before starting SezWho, Jitendra held several key product/marketing/engineering positions at Siebel Systems, Synopsys and Inquira. Jitendra has an engineering degree from IIT Kanpur (that he still puts to good use in building product) and a MBA from the University of Chicago.
Jitendra enjoys Tennis (and secretly thinks he can beat Nadal), running and is a diehard Patriots fan.
Shyam is a co-founder and VP of Marketing and Product Management at Punchh. Previously, Shyam held positions of increasing seniority at Motorola in their CDMA and WiMAX divisions. Shyam co-founded LoCognition, a mobile startup focused on aggregating and standardizing access to location based services across different cellular networks for anyone with content. He’s also held roles in finance and business development in the past on Wall Street and in the Media Industries. Shyam has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto (that he also still puts to good use at Punchh) and a MBA from the University of Chicago.
Shyam enjoys music and is planning to enroll in DJ school next (classic and progressive house).