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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Johanna Bauman is a seasoned marketer and business strategist with a track record of driving successful B2B marketing programs for technology companies. She joined PubMatic in 2016 as Senior Director, and later Vice President of Marketing Communications where she redefined the corporate narrative and executed global marketing programs that strengthened the PubMatic brand. In her role as Chief Marketing Officer, Johanna is responsible for all aspects of corporate marketing strategy, product marketing and sales enablement, brand development, events and communications across all regions.

Prior to joining PubMatic, Johanna led product marketing at CPXi, where she oversaw product development and go-to-market strategies across the company’s tech and media divisions. She has held several positions in product marketing, development, and events across the technology and non-profit sectors, including Infogroup, a leading data and marketing solutions company, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She earned her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and holds an MBA in Marketing, Strategy and Finance from the NYU Stern School of Business. When not leading marketing teams, Johanna enjoys her second job of being a mom to two young sons.

Kyle Dozeman has worked in the media and technology industries for over a decade. As Chief Revenue Officer, Americas, at PubMatic, he leads the publisher customer success organization as well as advertiser sales, operations and strategies in the region. Kyle joined PubMatic in 2013, and has held roles as a sales and corporate strategy leader. He has helped drive and support key initiatives, including developing the company’s demand strategy as well as international expansion efforts.

Prior to PubMatic, he held various product management and corporate strategy positions at Symantec, the global leader in cybersecurity. Kyle began his career working in finance at KPMG in Ireland.

Kyle holds a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.