Apurva Gupta is Vice President of Global Indirects Procurement and Excellence at Danone. With nearly three decades of experience across Supply Chain and Procurement, he operates at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and execution. Apurva is leading the end to end reinvention of Danone’s Indirects Procurement, challenging traditional models and elevating procurement from a transactional function into a powerful driver of growth, resilience, and competitive advantage. As head of the Global Procurement Center of Excellence, he is shaping a future ready organization — one that is insight driven, digitally enabled, and deeply connected to business value creation. Passionate about rethinking how organizations buy, partner, and innovate, Apurva champions the use of data, digital intelligence, and ecosystem collaboration to unlock smarter and faster decision making at scale. His earlier career spans P&G, Unilever, Kimberly Clark, GSK and Haleon, along with enterprise leadership as Chief Transformation and Sustainability Officer at Hero MotoCorp, and industry influence through AmCham Singapore and SynFiny Advisors.