Aman Gupta Moved to a Board Seat at boAt in 2025
Aman Gupta co-founded boAt with Sameer Mehta in 2016. The brand sells headphones, speakers and smartwatches, and its parent company is Imagine Marketing Limited. For years Gupta was boAt’s chief marketing officer. In September 2025 the board made chief operating officer Gaurav Nayyar the CEO, and Gupta became a non-executive director with no day-to-day duties. Mehta stayed on as an executive director.
| Role | Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director |
|---|---|
| Company | Imagine Marketing Limited (boAt) |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, India |
| Industry | Consumer Goods |
| In role since | 2025 |
| Born | 1982, Delhi, India |
| Education | BCom (Hons), Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi; Chartered Accountant; MBA in Finance and Strategy, Indian School of Business |
| Company website | www.boat-lifestyle.com |
Banking, Consulting and Then Consumer Audio
- Assistant manager at Citi
- Senior management consultant at KPMG
- Co-founded Advanced Telemedia Private Limited and served as its CEO
- 2016: co-founded boAt with Sameer Mehta
- 2021 onward: judge and investor on Shark Tank India, across five seasons
- 2025: stepped down as CMO and became a non-executive director of boAt
- 2026: announced a new venture, OFF/BEAT
Gupta studied commerce at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College in Delhi, qualified as a chartered accountant and later earned an MBA from the Indian School of Business.
boAt’s Revenue and Its Delayed Listing
In the year to March 2025, Imagine Marketing reported revenue from operations of Rs 3,070.38 crore and a profit of Rs 61.08 crore. That followed a loss of Rs 79.6 crore the year before. Audio products made up about 84% of sales and wearables about 11%. In the April to June 2025 quarter, revenue rose 11% to Rs 628.1 crore and net profit was Rs 21.4 crore.
The company filed updated draft IPO papers in October 2025 for a Rs 1,500 crore issue, made up of Rs 500 crore in new shares and Rs 1,000 crore sold by existing holders. Gupta planned to sell Rs 225 crore of his own stake. In January 2026 the company put the IPO on hold again, without setting a new date.
OFF/BEAT, His Next Venture
Gupta announced OFF/BEAT in March 2026. In April 2026 it raised Rs 100 crore in a seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. He has described the business as sitting where AI and content meet.
Pages Used for the Aman Gupta Profile
- Aman Gupta biography and career (Wikipedia)
- boAt elevates Gaurav Nayyar as CEO, co-founders move to new roles (People Matters)
- IPO-bound boAt names Gaurav Nayyar CEO (YourStory)
- boAt parent files updated DRHP, cuts issue size to Rs 1,500 crore (Business Standard)
- boAt IPO deferred again (Angel One)
- Aman Gupta’s OFF/BEAT raises Rs 100 crore (Inc42)
