Amar Goel
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.