Licious Appoints Karishma Gupta As CFO

Delightful Gourmet, the parent company of the premium D2C meat and seafood brand Licious, has appointed Karishma Gupta as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). This strategic appointment comes as Licious aims for profitable growth through an omnichannel strategy, with plans to open over 500 stores across twenty cities within the next five years. The company is targeting operational profitability by the end of the current financial year.

At Licious, she will be instrumental in driving sustainable growth and profitability, establishing governance frameworks, and developing key standard operating procedures as the company moves into a pre-IPO phase. Gupta, 39, is a chartered accountant with over eighteen years of diverse finance experience. Her expertise includes business partnering, supply chain finance, governance, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), audit, and controllership. She has held leadership roles in both multinational and Indian companies, with a proven track record of improving business performance, managing finances, and handling mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Licious, she led expansion and turnaround strategies across multiple brands and geographies for Jubilant Foodworks.

Her previous roles include positions at Diageo, GSK Consumer Healthcare, and ITC. She is among the youngest women CFOs in India, where only fifty of the 2,328 NSE-listed companies have women in this role.