Biography

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.