Management Team

Amar Goel, Founder and CEO

amar.goel (at) pubmatic . com

Amar founded PubMatic in October 2006. He previously led a sales and service team at Microsoft/MSN for the financial services and retail verticals. Amar previously founded and ran Chipshot.com, a leading online golf-etailer. He has also worked at McKinsey & Co, and Netscape Communications. Amar is a graduate of Harvard University, with a Masters in computer science, and a Bachelors in economics. He loves to play golf and once fell in a creek while playing. Amar blogs at www.amargoel.com.

Rajeev Goel, Co-Founder and General Manager

rajeev.goel (at) pubmatic . com

Rajeev is responsible for PubMatic’s business strategy and execution, leading product management, marketing, and operations. Rajeev has over ten years of experience in building and scaling products as well as in creating and executing business strategies. Rajeev was Co-Founder and VP of Technology of Chipshot.com, a leading online retailer of custom built golf equipment, where he lead product management and development for the $30M e-retailer. Rajeev was also a Principal at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, an IT strategy consulting firm for Fortune 2000 clients, where Rajeev led consulting teams on IT strategy engagements. Most Recently, Rajeev was Sr. Director of Product Marketing at SAP, where he was responsible for global go-to-market strategy for key new products. Rajeev holds a Bachelor’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University in Economics, Political Science, and Spanish and a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Computer Science.

Mukul Kumar, VP of Engineering and Founding Engineer

mukul.kumar (at) pubmatic . com

Mukul is responsible for PubMatic's engineering team and resides in Pune, India. Mukul was previously the Director of Engineering at PANTA Systems, a high performance computing startup. Previous to that he joined Veritas India as the 13th employee and helped it grow to over 2,000 individuals as Director of Engineering for the NetBackup group, Veritas' main product. He has filed for 14 patents in systems software, storage software, and application software and proudly proclaims his love of π and can recite it to 60 digits. Mukul is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur with a degree in electrical engineering.