Saum Mathur

Saum Mathur is the current Chief Commercial Officer for Groupon at Progresando.com. Prior to this, they were with Adaptive AI LLC and Ngenux Solutions Pvt Ltd. From July 2018 to April 2020, they were with Groupon as their Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) for Groupon International. In this role, they were responsible for driving billings of $1.6 Billion across 13 countries. This was accomplished by transforming the go to market strategy, sales strategy, business planning, digital marketing and demand generation, sales operations, product marketing, and technology; all while leveraging the power of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Some notable achievements during their time with Groupon include improving sales productivity by 89% YoY by introducing digital demand generation, revamping B2B marketing, creating sales enablement from scratch, implementing next generation of sales tools, and Lean Six Sigma process improvements. Saum also grew revenues by 7.8% YoY in APAC and EMEA (excluding UK/Brexit) by using machine learning and data science techniques to device a hyper local demand-supply growth strategy. Lastly, they improved ecommerce conversion by 50bps YoY through integrating product redesign, pricing & promotion optimization, and supply planning transformation.

Saum Mathur earned their M. Eng in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University. Saum then worked as an engineer at the Marine Engineering Research Institute (MERI).