Pooja Sengupta

Marketplace and ecommerce executive. Founder. Operator.

20 years building and running ecommerce and marketplace businesses across the US, India, and Australia, including a $1.1B P&L at Coles Supermarkets and senior leadership at Catch.com.au.

Five ventures of my own, built and operated end to end.

Portrait of Pooja Sengupta
20 Years in ecommerce and marketplaces
$1.1B P&L owned Coles Supermarkets
3 Countries operated across Australia · India · US
5 Ventures founded and run

Operating experience

Coles Supermarkets

Sep 2017 – Jul 2019 · A$1.1B P&L owned
Wesfarmers-owned to Nov 2018, Fortune Global 500

Catch.com.au

Feb – Sep 2017 · A$200M P&L owned
DTC and Mirakl marketplace

GS1 Australia

Aug 2019 – May 2022 · 300+ brands
eBay, Google Shopping, Amazon, Alibaba

Lasoo

Jun 2022 – Mar 2023 · 60+ retailers
IVE Group, ASX-listed

Earlier career: Save the Children Australia · Zoho · Melbourne IT · Citigroup, UK cards portfolio

Founded & Led

Five ventures of my own, and the companies where I ran marketplace, merchandising, and ecommerce lines. The balance is the point: building from nothing and operating at national scale teach different things, and most executives have only done one.

Founded

PurvX 2023– · ethnic wear resale, global

PurvX India 2023– · ethnic wear resale, domestic

MFD Office SaaS, India

Dropped Pin 2010–14 · eCommerce, fashion

Evryfit eCommerce, fitness

Led

Coles Supermarkets 2017–19 · marketplace, last‑mile, merchandising

Catch.com.au 2017 · marketplace, merchandising

GS1 Australia 2019–22 · listing standards & policy

Lasoo 2022–23 · marketplace, ASX:IVE

Save the Children 2015–17 · digital marketing

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How I Operate

Marketplaces

Supply, demand, operations, and trust are tightly coupled, and they break in that order. I have worked on the parts that fail after growth, which is a different job from getting you there.

Ecommerce leadership

Large revenue lines, partnerships, and execution inside scaled businesses. A $1.1B P&L at Coles and a team of 31. I launched the world's first grocery marketplace on eBay, rolled Click & Collect across 800+ supermarkets on the Ocado stack, and cut average delivery time 35%.

Building with AI

Generative AI evaluation and strategy with leading AI organizations, and AI used directly in how I build and operate, from backend automation to internal tooling.

Selected Work & Perspectives

Writing drawn from operating inside ecommerce and marketplace businesses. What breaks at scale, what compounds over time, and what most teams underestimate.

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Press & Recognition

As featured in

Open to executive roles in the US

Marketplace, ecommerce, and AI-led operations. Australian citizen, so the E‑3 applies: no lottery and no USCIS petition.