BUILT TO CONNECT. POWERED TO PERFORM.

PubMatic delivers advertising performance through an AI-powered, integrated platform that connects buyers, publishers, data partners, and commerce media. By operating on an AI-first architecture designed to make intelligence fundamental—not additive—PubMatic enables measurable outcomes with transparency, control, and efficiency at global scale.

Delivering AI-Powered Advertising Performance at Scale

Since 2006, PubMatic has pioneered major advances for programmatic advertising, from powering the first OpenRTB transactions to architecting AI-driven optimization and privacy-focused innovation across its platform. Today, we operate the leading AI-powered advertising platform designed to deliver measurable performance across premium digital media, including CTV, mobile app, and omnichannel environments.

Our intelligent, unified platform enables buyers, publishers, and data partners to connect more efficiently, optimize continuously, and achieve better outcomes. By building an architecture where intelligence spans infrastructure, applications, and transactions, PubMatic enables continuous learning, optimization, and performance at scale.

What makes us different

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AI-First
by Design

AI is foundational to PubMatic’s platform, not an add-on. The platform is architected so intelligence spans infrastructure, applications, and transactions—enabling faster decisioning, continuous optimization, and smarter outcomes at scale.

Performance You
Can Measure

We lead with outcomes. PubMatic delivers real-time optimization, scaled supply, and rich data to drive measurable ROI for buyers and sustainable growth for publishers across premium digital media.

Integrated and
Independent

Our unified, omnichannel platform connects buyers, publishers, data partners, and commerce media without conflicts of interest—preserving transparency, control, and trust while improving efficiency across the ecosystem.

Our Infrastructure

AI-First Infrastructure Built for Advertising Performance

PubMatic approaches digital advertising through the lens of AI-first infrastructure. By owning and operating our global cloud platform, PubMatic has architected its infrastructure specifically for intelligence—so performance, speed, and optimization are properties of the system itself, not downstream optimizations.

This vertically integrated infrastructure allows us to innovate rapidly, optimize performance across CTV, mobile app, and omnichannel environments, and deliver reliable outcomes without reliance on third-party cloud constraints.

Our Locations

Our Scale

As of March 31, 2026

  • 1028B Daily Ad
    Impressions
  • 2.7T Advertiser Bids
    per Day
  • 17 Offices
  • 1971 Direct
    Publishers
  • 10 Data Centers

AWARDS

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LEADERSHIP TEAM

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Rajeev Goel Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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Amar Goel Founder, Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer
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Mukul Kumar Co-Founder & President, Engineering
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Steve Pantelick Chief Financial Officer
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Paulina Klimenko Chief Growth Officer
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John Petralia Chief Marketing Officer
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Andrew Woods General Counsel
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Nishant Khatri Executive VP, Product Management
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Lorrie Dougherty SVP, Human Resources

Rajeev Goel

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Rajeev co-founded PubMatic in 2006, based on the belief that publishers are underserved from a technology and services perspective, and set out to build a software company focused on publishers. Under his leadership, the company has grown and matured into a publicly traded enterprise with more than 800 employees and 18 offices around the world. PubMatic’s trajectory has been fueled by a commitment to strong company culture, rapid innovation, and owned and operated technology infrastructure.

Rajeev is a serial entrepreneur with experience navigating large enterprises. Prior to PubMatic, he co-founded Chipshot.com, an online retailer of custom-built golf equipment, where he served as vice president of technology and led product management and development. In addition, Rajeev was a product marketing director at SAP, where he was responsible for global go-to-market strategy for new products. Prior to joining SAP, he was a principal at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, a consulting firm for Fortune 2000 clients, where he led teams on technology strategy engagements.

Rajeev serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. He is also a Trustee at The Johns Hopkins University. Rajeev holds a master’s degree in Computer and Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in Economics, Political Science and Spanish from The Johns Hopkins University.

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PubMatic is on a path to deliver the industry’s leading infrastructure for digital advertising. It’s an honor to work with a fabulous team and serve the world’s leading publishers, advertisers, and agencies on a daily basis.

Amar Goel

Founder, Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer

A serial entrepreneur, Amar founded PubMatic in 2006, serving as the company’s first CEO until his brother, Rajeev Goel, took the helm as the company’s current CEO. As Founder & Chairman, Amar runs PubMatic’s marketplace group, which is focused on increasing liquidity and driving monetization for the publishers on PubMatic’s platform. As part of this role, Amar is responsible for the machine learning team and runs the EMEA and APAC regions. As Chairman of the Board he is responsible for helping PubMatic’s Board and management team drive the company’s overall strategy.

In addition to PubMatic, Amar also founded several other companies, including Komli Media, the leading independent advertising technology platform in the APAC region. Amar served as Founder and Chairman of Komli from 2006 through 2013, assuming the role of Founder and CEO in late 2013, a position he held until selling Komli Media in September 2015 when he rejoined PubMatic in a more active day-to-day role. As a 19-year-old student at Harvard University, Amar co-founded Chipshot.com. Over five years he grew the business to approximately $30M in annual sales, making Chipshot.com the fastest-growing ecommerce website at that time.

In addition to founding his own companies, Amar has extensive experience in digital media and advertising, previously leading sales for a digital advertising business for Microsoft in the US, and working at McKinsey & Co. and Netscape in a variety of consulting and engineering roles.

As an entrepreneur, Amar raised over $100M in venture capital and hired more than 1,000 employees around the globe, generating several hundred million dollars per year in revenue at peak. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University.

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Building PubMatic with our customers, employees, and shareholders has really been the journey of a lifetime. I am more excited for the future of digital advertising today than when I started PubMatic!

Mukul Kumar

Co-Founder & President, Engineering

Mukul has over two decades of software engineering expertise and is one of the four co-founders that started PubMatic in 2006. As the president of PubMatic’s engineering organization, Mukul is responsible for ensuring that PubMatic’s product vision is realized through excellence in execution and helping to drive the company’s continued product innovation. Mukul oversees more than 300 employees that comprise the company’s engineering, data and analytics and data center teams. Mukul is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship, he regularly talks at popular startup conferences and advises budding entrepreneurs.

Prior to co-founding PubMatic, Mukul was the director of engineering at PANTA Systems, a high-performance computing startup. Prior to PANTA, Mukul served as a director at Veritas (India), joining the company as its 13th employee. There, he helped grow the company to over 2,000 employees in India. Mukul has filed for 14 patents in systems software, storage software and application software and proudly proclaims his love for π and his ability to recite it to 60 digits.

Mukul is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He is based in PubMatic’s office in Pune, India.

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Steve Pantelick

Chief Financial Officer

Steve is an accomplished industry executive with more than 20 years of experience in driving growth and profitability, strategy and operational excellence across a broad range of industries in the US and Europe. He joined PubMatic in 2011 after working with leading companies including Ofoto (Kodak Gallery), a pioneer in the online photo sharing space with 60 million monthly users, Blockbuster, Inc., a multi-billion dollar global business, and Cadbury Schweppes Plc, one of the world’s largest confectionery and beverage brands.

Before joining PubMatic, Steve was CFO of the innovative data management platform company Aggregate Knowledge. Prior to that, as CFO of Ofoto/Kodak Gallery, Steve helped build one of the world’s leading online digital imaging and services companies, where in addition to finance, he oversaw the company’s printing and customer service operations. Earlier in his career, he worked for Blockbuster in roles ranging from COO of Blockbuster Inc.’s New Media Division to senior vice president of Blockbuster’s U.S. Financial Operations overseeing 4,000 retail locations, to vice president of worldwide planning and helped take the company public in 1999.

Prior to Blockbuster, Steve spent seven years with Cadbury Schweppes, in a variety of roles in the US and Europe, including vice president of finance for Dr. Pepper/7Up and planning director for Schweppes Europe.

Steve holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.

 

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Paulina Klimenko

Chief Growth Officer

Paulina joined PubMatic in 2011, bringing 15 years of experience in new business development and corporate strategy. As Chief Growth Officer, Paulina oversees PubMatic’s international business, business and corporate development, and high-growth strategic initiatives.

Prior to joining PubMatic, Paulina was a director at PayPal where she negotiated and managed strategic partnerships with Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and other large Internet and payment players, and she played a leadership role in establishing the X.commerce business at eBay. Prior to that, Paulina headed business development for BlueLithium, a leading online ad network acquired by Yahoo!. She also spent four years at AOL, driving strategy, corporate development and international expansion, including the launch of AOL’s Advertising.com business in Japan. Paulina started her career in investment banking and corporate finance at Charles Schwab.

Paulina earned her undergraduate degree at the Finance Academy of Moscow and her MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

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I have been privileged to lead and participate in PubMatic’s growth story over the last decade. I am excited about the continued innovation and creativity of PubMatic’s team that is changing the world of digital advertising.

John Petralia

Chief Marketing Officer

John Petralia is Chief Marketing Officer at PubMatic, where he leads global marketing as the company scales AI-powered advertising technology across connected TV, mobile, and omnichannel media. An engineer-turned-marketer with 25+ years of experience, John has built marketing organizations at the intersection of complex technology and customer value across ad tech and enterprise platforms.

At PubMatic, John oversees brand, product marketing, communications, and demand generation globally. His focus is on translating sophisticated technology into clear customer value as the digital advertising industry moves from AI experimentation to scaled, performance-driven deployment.

Before PubMatic, John was CMO of Enterprise at Coursera, leading global marketing for the company's B2B education platform. He previously served as VP of Marketing at The Trade Desk, where he built global marketing capabilities during a high-growth phase, and spent seven years at Bloomberg, where he built and scaled the company's global marketing organization and led marketing across data, analytics, and media businesses.

John holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran.

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Andrew Woods

General Counsel

Andrew Woods is an attorney and executive with 15 years’ experience working across technology, legal services, and startup companies. He joined PubMatic as general counsel and corporate secretary in 2022, where he oversees the company’s global corporate, commercial, intellectual property and legal affairs.

Prior to joining Pubmatic, he served as a director & associate general counsel at Twitter (NYSE: TWTR); a corporate counsel at demand-side platform Turn, Inc. (acquired by Amobee); the general counsel and a co-founder at Skill-in-Games, a data analytics firm; and an associate at a boutique law firm where he focused on transnational litigation. Before practicing law, Andrew served as a teaching fellow at the Harvard College of Economics and was the executive director of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS).

Andrew holds a J.D. from Harvard University and obtained his bachelor’s degree in History from the University of California, Los Angeles.

He lives in San Francisco with his wife and three sons.

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Nishant Khatri

Executive VP, Product Management

Nishant is a seasoned product executive with decades of experience building and launching successful internet and high-tech products. As Executive Vice President, Product Management, he is responsible for driving global product innovation and development across all of the products and solutions. He joined PubMatic in 2015 as the header bidding Product Manager, devising strategies with Prebid and OpenWrap to establish PubMatic as having one of the most thoughtful solutions in the industry. Since then Nishant has taken up increasing levels of product leadership roles, building a solid team that drives PubMatic’s RTB platform and pipes in addition to our marketplace quality, omni-channel monetization, analytics platform, and efficiency.

Prior to PubMatic, Nishant led new product innovation, platform and mobile audience related products at Groundtruth, playing a key role in what was then a rapidly growing location based mobile advertising platform. He has deep insights into the location based mobile ad technology market. These experiences were more centered on the buy side of the eco-system, including prior ones that involved the use of machine learning applications in search and contextual advertising at Microsoft and Yahoo.

Nishant grew up in India and moved to Bay Area to do his MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is also an Electronics and Communication engineer, and has professionally worked on building robotic systems before working in ad tech.

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Lorrie Dougherty

SVP, Human Resources

Lorrie Dougherty brings more than 20 years of experience and a diverse people skillset to PubMatic as the SVP, Human Resources (HR). Lorrie represents the HR function by providing thought-leadership and insight into the best global people practices for PubMatic. Lorrie manages with a collaborative focus and goal to integrate global business and personnel strategies to deliver optimal results. She leads the global HR team to create and execute policies and programs that promote retention through learning and engagement, foster a positive employee experience and support a diverse and inclusive culture. Lorrie is committed to continually assessing the competitiveness and resulting impact of PubMatic’s people programs and practices to always do better for our employees.

Lorrie’s experience spans strategic talent acquisition, compensation strategy and design, global benefits, learning and development, corporate culture, employee engagement, plus immigration and diversity and inclusion. She has held influential HR and recruiting positions across multiple industries including higher education (as the Director or Recruitment for the MBA program at Seton Hall University), pharmaceuticals (as the HR Business Partner for National Sales at Organon), media (Director of Recruiting for MTV Networks) and advertising (Senior Director, HR for Viacom).

She admittedly fell in love with the advertising industry when she joined Viacom in 2007 and set out to build their first digital advertising sales department. Her success led to a supporting role in building out other complimentary businesses including, MTV Games and EPIX. She worked with Viacom until 2015, holding a Senior Director role supporting the Kids & Family Advertising Sales Division at Nickelodeon before coming to PubMatic.

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GLOBAL MANAGEMENT

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Jason Barnes Chief Revenue Officer, APAC
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Emma Newman Chief Revenue Officer, EMEA

Jason Barnes

Chief Revenue Officer, APAC

Jason has more than 15 years of digital experience from a number of senior positions held in Asia and Europe. He joined PubMatic in 2014 as vice president for the Asia Pacific region, where he manages teams in offices across Australia, India, Japan and Singapore. Jason has spent the last several years driving expansion of the company’s business across the Asian market, and was promoted to Chief Revenue Officer for APAC in 2018. He oversees the development of major partnerships and business initiatives such as the recent launch of J-PAD, an alliance of leading Japanese publishers powered by PubMatic’s revenue management platform, SEVEN.

Prior to joining PubMatic, Jason served as the head of commercial development at News Corp Australia, where he launched and managed the publisher’s initial adoption of programmatic and was responsible for driving growth of the company’s strategy. Before joining News Corp in early 2008, Jason spent four years as business development director at Fairfax Digital, where he established the media company’s mobile business. Prior to Fairfax, Jason worked at FT.com in London, where he was responsible for content and corporate subscriptions.

Jason holds an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management.  

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Emma Newman

Chief Revenue Officer, EMEA

Emma Newman has served as a pioneer in the digital media space with 20 plus years’ experience in all marketing disciplines, digital communications and business development. Emma joined PubMatic in 2014 as Senior Director of International Marketing, was promoted to Vice President of International Marketing and later took on a commercial role as VP, UK.  Emma was promoted to Chief Revenue Officer, EMEA in August of 2019.

Prior to PubMatic, Emma spent 10 years at MSN in several marketing roles before transitioning to lead their business excellence function across EMEA. She then served as AOL’s Senior Director of UK Marketing where she built and lead both the commercial and consumer marketing teams. Emma later joined the team that launched the Huffington Post in EMEA and sat on the board of Clear Channel UK as their Marketing Director, helping to drive their transition into the digital space. Emma became increasingly interested in the technology that powers digital publishing and ultimately chose to move into AdTech as it allows her to support digital publishing whilst also being part of an industry that would help shape the future of digital advertising.

Throughout Emma’s time at PubMatic, she has proven to be a leader, cultivating a deep understanding of our products and working with our customers and partners to help them take advantage of the opportunities that programmatic has to offer. In her new role as Chief Revenue Officer, EMEA, strategy, change, and bringing people together continue to be the central theme in her career.

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Access to a free and open internet is critical to a fair and equitable society. The focus we have here at PubMatic, supporting premium publishers to ensure that their investment in quality journalism is sustainable, makes me incredibly proud to work here.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Susan Daimler Independent Director | Director Since 2020
Amar Goel Chairman of the Board, Chief Innovation Officer & Director | Director Since 2006
Rajeev Goel Chief Executive Officer & Director | Director Since 2006
Jacob Shulman Independent Director | Director Since 2022
Shelagh Glaser Independent Director | Director Since 2022
Nick Mehta Independent Director | Director Since 2023
Anton Hanebrink Independent Director | Director Since 2023
Ramon Jones Independent Director | Director Since 2023

Susan Daimler

Independent Director | Director Since 2020

Susan Daimler has been a member of our Board of Directors since November 2020. She serves as the Chair of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and as a member of our Compensation Committee. She served as President of Zillow Group, Inc., a publicly traded real estate technology company, from February 2021 to November 2024, where she was responsible for $1.5 billion in annual revenue and oversaw the strategy, operations, and sales of the Premier Agent, Zillow Home Loans, New Construction, and StreetEasy businesses. Earlier at Zillow, Ms. Daimler served as Senior Vice President of Premier Agent (2018-2021), overseeing the company's flagship agent marketing and lead generation business, and as Senior Vice President and General Manager of StreetEasy and Zillow NYC (2012-2018), where she built Zillow Group's New York operations. Ms. Daimler joined Zillow in October 2012 following its acquisition of Buyfolio, Inc., a co-shopping platform for real estate agents and home buyers that she co-founded in 2009.

Prior to Buyfolio, Ms. Daimler co-founded SeatGuru, a consumer travel website providing airplane seat maps and reviews, which was acquired by Expedia Group Inc. in 2007. Earlier in her career, Ms. Daimler worked in advertising at TBWA\Chiat\Day and in email marketing. In August 2025, Ms. Daimler was appointed to the board of directors of Cushman & Wakefield plc (NYSE: CWK), a global leader in commercial real estate services, where she serves as an independent director. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of The Johns Hopkins University and on the Advisory Council of the Center for Innovative Leadership at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

Ms. Daimler has been recognized as one of the '7 Most Interesting People in Real Estate' by industry analyst Rob Hahn, named Innovator of the Year and a Top 100 Real Estate Leader by Inman News, and ranked #22 on the Swanepoel Power 200 Leadership rankings. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from The Johns Hopkins University.

Our Board of Directors believes that Ms. Daimler possesses specific attributes and experience that qualify her to serve as a director, including her more than 20 years' experience building and scaling digital consumer marketplaces and two-sided platforms, entrepreneurial experience founding and selling two consumer technology companies; operational expertise scaling digital marketplaces and platform businesses; experience overseeing go-to-market strategy, sales operations, and digital monetization at a public technology company; and her service on the boards of directors of two publicly traded companies.

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Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Amar Goel

Chairman of the Board, Chief Innovation Officer & Director | Director Since 2006

Amar K. Goel is our founder and has served as Chairman of the Board and as a member of our Board of Directors since 2006. He has served as our Chief Innovation Officer since February 2021, where he leads PubMatic's marketplace strategy, machine learning initiatives, and international operations across EMEA and APAC on a part-time basis. Mr. Goel served as our first Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to 2008, establishing the technical and strategic foundation that has enabled PubMatic to scale to processing hundreds of billions of daily impressions.

Mr. Goel has extensive experience founding, scaling, and exiting digital advertising and technology businesses across multiple geographies. Since March 2021, Mr. Goel has served on the board of directors of Kredivo Holdings Ltd., a Singaporean fintech company operating the leading buy-now-pay-later platform in Indonesia. Since May 2021, Mr. Goel has also served as Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors of Bito Inc., an AI-powered developer tools company that has grown to more than 100,000 active developers globally and is backed by Eniac Ventures, NGP Capital, Vela Partners, and NextView Ventures. He founded Komli Media, Inc., an Asia-focused digital media platform company that was spun out of our Company, where he served as Chairman of the board of directors from 2008 to 2015 and as Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to 2011 and from December 2013 to September 2015, growing the company to approximately $50 million in revenue before its sale. He served as Chairman of the board of directors of RevX, Inc., an Asia-focused mobile advertising company subsequently acquired by Affle, from 2015 to 2018. Earlier in his career, Mr. Goel served in sales leadership roles at Microsoft Corporation (2003-2006), where he led sales for a digital advertising business in the United States, and as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. (2000-2003). He began his career as a software engineer at Netscape Communications Corporation during the early development of the commercial internet. As a 19-year-old student at Harvard University, Mr. Goel co-founded Chipshot.com from his dormitory room, growing the venture-backed online retailer to approximately $30 million in annual sales and 200 employees.

Mr. Goel is an active angel investor in enterprise technology and AI companies, with investments including SafeGraph, Nanonets, Kredivo Group, and others. Mr. Goel holds an A.B. in Economics and an M.S. in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Our Board of Directors believes that Mr. Goel possesses specific attributes that qualify him to serve as a director, including the perspective and experience he brings as our founder; his deep technical expertise in machine learning, auction dynamics, and real-time bidding infrastructure; expertise in scaled cloud architecture and high-volume data processing systems; his proven ability to identify and execute strategic opportunities across global markets; and his track record of creating and scaling digital advertising businesses.

Rajeev Goel

Chief Executive Officer & Director | Director Since 2006

Rajeev K. Goel is one of our co-founders and has served as a member of our Board of Directors since September 2006, and since December 2008 Mr. Goel has been PubMatic's Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, PubMatic grew from a four-person startup to a publicly traded enterprise with over 1,000 employees across 18 offices worldwide. Mr. Goel led the Company through its successful initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market in December 2020.

Mr. Goel is a recognized leader in digital advertising and serves on the board of directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), where he works alongside senior executives from leading brands, agencies, publishers and technology companies to shape industry standards and practices. He is a founding consortium member of AgenticAdvertising.org and the Ad Context Protocol (AdCP), a non-profit governance structure launched in December 2025 to establish open standards for agent-to-agent advertising transactions.

Mr. Goel is a Trustee of The Johns Hopkins University, where he served on the Audit Committee for four years. He was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 Bay Area Award Winner, selected by an independent panel of judges based on his entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth, and impact. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including Advertising Week New York, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, DMEXCO, and the LUMA Digital Media Summit, and is a published contributor to ADWEEK on topics including the competitive dynamics of digital advertising markets.

Before co-founding our Company, Mr. Goel served as a Senior Director of Product Marketing at SAP AG (2005-2007), where he was responsible for global go-to-market strategy; as a Principal at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants (2001-2005), where he led technology strategy engagements for Fortune 500 clients; and as a co-founder and Vice President of Technology of Chipshot.com (1996-2000), a venture-backed online retailer. Mr. Goel holds a Master of Science in Computer and Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Political Science, and Spanish from The Johns Hopkins University.

Our Board of Directors believes that Mr. Goel possesses specific attributes that qualify him to serve as a director, including the historical knowledge and operational expertise that he brings to our Board of Directors as our co-founder and Chief Executive Officer; his two decades of experience building and scaling digital advertising infrastructure; his deep relationships across the digital advertising ecosystem; and his track record of strategic leadership through industry transformation, including the current AI transformation underway.

Jacob Shulman

Independent Director | Director Since 2022

Jacob Shulman was appointed to our Board of Directors in June 2022 and has served as a member of the Audit Committee since his appointment. In July 2025, Mr. Shulman was appointed Chair of our Audit Committee. Mr. Shulman qualifies as an 'audit committee financial expert' as defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K. Mr. Shulman has served as Chief Financial Officer of Tekion Corp., a cloud-native automotive retail platform, since January 2024, where he leads the global finance organization including financial planning, investor relations, accounting, treasury management, and corporate development. During his time with Tekion, Mr. Shulman has been instrumental in Tekion surpassing $300 million in revenue run rate while growing over 200% in two years. Previously, Mr. Shulman served as Chief Financial Officer of JFrog Ltd. (Nasdaq: FROG), a leading provider of software supply chain platform, from May 2018 to December 2023. At JFrog, he played an instrumental role in guiding the company through its September 2020 initial public offering and scaling the business from $30 million in revenue run rate to over $400 million. Mr. Shulman served as Chief Financial Officer of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (Nasdaq: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance computing networking solutions, from November 2012 to May 2018, and in other finance leadership roles at Mellanox beginning in June 2007. During his tenure, he helped transform Mellanox's financial organization to support annual revenue growth from $48 million to over $1 billion, oversaw $1.5 billion in acquisitions, and secured $500 million in financing. NVIDIA Corporation acquired Mellanox in April 2020 for approximately $7 billion.

Mr. Shulman has served on the board of directors of Verbit, Inc., an AI-powered transcription and captioning platform, between May 2021 and October 2024. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Accounting from Tel Aviv University and a Master of Business Administration from the College of Management Academic Studies.

Our Board of Directors believes Mr. Shulman possesses specific attributes and experience that qualify him to serve as a director and bring additional perspective to our Board of Directors, including his qualification as an audit committee financial expert; experience scaling and leading public company financial operations; expertise in high-growth cloud and infrastructure businesses; and his experience building financial infrastructure to support business transformations.

Chair of the Audit Committee

Shelagh Glaser

Independent Director | Director Since 2022

Shelagh Glaser has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2022. She served as Chair of our Audit Committee until July 2025, and remains a member of our Audit Committee. She qualifies as an 'audit committee financial expert' as defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K. Ms. Glaser has served as Chief Financial Officer of Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a global leader in electronic design automation software and silicon IP, since December 2022, where she is responsible for Finance, Tax, Treasury, and Investor Relations and leads a finance organization of approximately 700 people. At Synopsys, Ms. Glaser played a central role in the company's $35 billion acquisition and integration of Ansys, Inc., which received final regulatory approval in July 2025. In connection with the acquisition of Ansys, Ms. Glaser also led the inaugural $10 billion bond issuance for Synopsys.

Prior to Synopsys, Ms. Glaser served as Chief Financial Officer of Zendesk, Inc. (NYSE: ZEN), a software-as-a-service customer relationship management company, from May 2021 to November 2022, where she led global finance, strategy, accounting, corporate reporting, deal desk, procurement, real estate, and investor relations through the company's acquisition by Hellman & Friedman and Permira. Ms. Glaser spent approximately 29 years at Intel Corporation in progressively senior finance and operational leadership roles. She served as Corporate Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer for Intel's Data Platform Group from July 2019 to May 2021, responsible for finance and operations of Intel's data center, artificial intelligence, and network infrastructure businesses. She served as Chief Financial Officer for Intel's Client Computing Group from December 2013 to July 2019, Intel's largest business unit by revenue at the time. Earlier Intel roles included Vice President and Platform Engineering Group Controller and Mobility Computing Group Controller.

In 2025, Ms. Glaser was named a Finalist for the Bay Area CFO of the Year Award in the Large Public Company category and completed the Stanford Executive Accelerator program at Stanford University. Ms. Glaser holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.

Our Board of Directors believes that Ms. Glaser possesses specific attributes and experience that qualify her to serve as a director, including her qualification as an audit committee financial expert; extensive experience as chief financial officer of publicly traded technology companies across semiconductor, SaaS, and electronic design automation industries; deep expertise in data infrastructure, cloud computing, and high-scale data processing businesses; and her experience executing large strategic transactions.

Member of the Audit Committee

Nick Mehta

Independent Director | Director Since 2023

Nick Mehta has been a member of our Board of Directors since August 2023 and serves as Chair of our Compensation Committee. Mr. Mehta is widely recognized as the architect of the Customer Success software category and brings deep expertise in subscription business models, SaaS metrics, and technology company scaling. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Gainsight, Inc. from February 2013 to August 2025, growing the company from a handful of employees to more than 1,400 and helping expand the global customer success profession from approximately 1,000 practitioners to hundreds of thousands. Under Mr. Mehta's leadership, Gainsight raised over $156 million in venture funding from Battery Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Salesforce Ventures; achieved unicorn status through Vista Equity Partners' majority acquisition at a $1.1 billion valuation in November 2020; was named to the Forbes Cloud 100 five times; and earned the #1 spot on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work list for 2023. Mr. Mehta led initiatives at Gainsight integrating AI into enterprise customer retention and business operations. In August 2025, Mr. Mehta transitioned from CEO to Special Advisor to the CEO and was appointed to serve on Gainsight's Board of Directors.

Previously, Mr. Mehta served as Chief Executive Officer of LiveOffice, a cloud-based email archiving and compliance provider, from May 2008 to May 2012, where he led the company's profitable growth to $25 million in revenue and its successful sale to Symantec Corporation for approximately $115 million. Before LiveOffice, Mr. Mehta spent more than five years at Symantec Corporation and Veritas Software Corporation, where he served as Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Vault business and grew annual sales from $23 million to over $200 million. He has served as Executive-in-Residence at Accel Partners (2012-2013) and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Trinity Ventures (2007-2008). Mr. Mehta has served on the board of directors of F5, Inc. (Nasdaq: FFIV), a leading provider of multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions, since January 2019, on the board of directors of Lead Edge Growth Opportunities, Ltd. (2021-2025), and on the board of directors of Larridin, Inc. since January 2025. He has co-authored four books on customer success strategy, including Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue (Wiley, 2016) and Digital Customer Success (Wiley, 2024). Mr. Mehta was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 for Northern California and has been named one of the Top SaaS CEOs by The Software Report four times, ranking as high as #2 overall.

Mr. Mehta holds a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Biochemistry and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Harvard University. Mr. Mehta's key qualifications and experience that contribute to our Board of Directors include his experience as chief executive officer of technology companies; his expertise in subscription business models, customer retention, and net revenue expansion strategies that are directly relevant to PubMatic's recurring publisher relationships; his entrepreneurial experience founding and scaling technology companies; his expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in enterprise software; his service on the boards of multiple technology companies; and his recognized thought leadership in SaaS value creation.

Chair of the Compensation Committee

Anton Hanebrink

Independent Director | Director Since 2023

Anton Hanebrink has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2023 and serves on our Audit Committee. He qualifies as an 'audit committee financial expert' as defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K. Mr. Hanebrink has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Strategy & Development Officer of Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), a global financial technology platform serving consumers and small businesses, since 2019, and as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development from November 2016 to 2019. At Intuit, Mr. Hanebrink leads the strategy, corporate development, and corporate partnership teams that define and accelerate the company's strategic growth objectives. He has led over $20 billion in strategic acquisitions that have accelerated Intuit's AI-driven platform strategy for consumers, SMBs, and mid-market businesses. Mr. Hanebrink led the launch of Intuit Ventures, the company's corporate venture capital organization, in September 2021. Over the past several years, he has also negotiated transformational partnerships with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Amazon. He previously served at Intuit as Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development from January 2011 to October 2014, during which time he redesigned the company's acquisition playbook and drove acquisition activity totaling over $2 billion in value.

Between his two tenures at Intuit, Mr. Hanebrink served as Head of Corporate Development at Square, Inc. (now Block, Inc.) from October 2014 to November 2016, where he led the company's acquisition activity and inorganic strategy development, and served as financing lead for Square Capital, securing hundreds of millions of dollars in external financing for Square's small business lending platform. Earlier in his career, Mr. Hanebrink served as Manager in the Strategy & Corporate Development group at Hewlett-Packard Company; as a Consultant at Boston Consulting Group; as a founding member of the M&A group at LaSalle Bank; and in investment banking at ABN AMRO, where he executed over a dozen M&A advisory assignments and equity offerings.

Mr. Hanebrink holds a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from Washington University in St. Louis. Our Board of Directors believes that Mr. Hanebrink possesses specific attributes, qualifications, and experience that qualify him to serve as a director, including his qualification as an audit committee financial expert; extensive experience leading corporate strategy and M&A at scale for publicly traded technology platform companies; expertise in evaluating, structuring, and integrating strategic acquisitions in adjacent markets; and his experience with AI partnerships and corporate venture capital.

Member of the Audit Committee

Ramon Jones

Independent Director | Director Since 2023

Ramon Jones was appointed to our Board of Directors in December 2023 and serves on our Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Jones' experience includes more than 25 years of marketing leadership, digital transformation, and operations at scale. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company, from November 2019 until his retirement in March 2025. As CMO, Mr. Jones was responsible for brand and marketing strategy, advertising, creative services, social media, and corporate communications for an enterprise that achieved record total sales of $70 billion in 2024. He led the transformation of Nationwide's marketing organization by implementing a digital-first strategy that drove record growth, and modernized the company's customer acquisition capabilities, including by addressing the impact of cookie deprecation by leading the transition to cookieless attribution and measurement solutions. Mr. Jones joined Nationwide in 2000 and held progressively senior roles including Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communications (2016-2019) and Regional Operations Vice President (2012-2016).

Prior to Nationwide, Mr. Jones was a Manager in Accenture's Financial Services Strategy Practice, advising major insurance carriers on customer segmentation, distribution channel strategy, and digital transformation. In November 2025, Mr. Jones was appointed to the board of directors of MediaAlpha, Inc. (NYSE: MAX), a leading programmatic advertising platform for insurance and financial services. Additionally, he serves on the board of directors of the Columbus Regional Airport Authority, where he is a member of the Finance & Audit Committee and the Air Service & Customer Experience Committee, and he serves on the board of the Mount Carmel Health System. Mr. Jones is a Founding Member of the Black Executive CMO Alliance (BECA) and a member of the Executive Leadership Council. He has been recognized as an Adweek Brand Genius (2023), Adweek Marketing Vanguard (2024), and was named to the Adweek 50 list of leaders in marketing, media, and technology (2021). Mr. Jones holds FINRA Series 6 and Series 26 licenses. He holds a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Villanova University.

Our Board of Directors believes that Mr. Jones possesses specific attributes and experience that qualify him to serve as a director, including his experience as a C-suite executive leading the marketing function of a Fortune 100 publicly traded company; expertise in brand strategy, digital marketing, customer acquisition, and marketing technology; perspective as an advertiser and buyer of programmatic media; and his service on other public company and institutional boards.

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