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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.

Andrew Woods

Eric joined [August Capital](/org/august-capital) in 2010 to focus on investing in later stage growth companies to provide capital for growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations and shareholder liquidity. Eric has broad investing, transaction and operating experience in private and public growth companies.

Immediately prior to joining [August Capital](/org/august-capital), Eric was a partner at Continental Investors where he invested in ecommerce and software companies; and financial technology and service companies. His transaction experience includes several years of investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co including the position of Co-Head of Technology Investment Banking. Eric also served as an Executive in Residence at [Golden Gate Capital](/org/golden-gate-capital)

Eric’s operating experience includes: CFO for Einstein Noah Bagel Corporation (ENBC) during the company’s initial public offering; CFO for Authorize.Net, which was acquired by Go2Net (GNET); and CFO of Provide Commerce (PRVD), which was acquired by Liberty Media Interactive (LINTA).

Eric received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Current Board Affiliations: [AvantCredit](/org/avantcredit), [Blue Nile](/org/blue-nile) (NILE), [Dydacomp](/org/dydacomp), [Integral Ad Science](/org/integral-ad-science), [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic), SnagAJob, and Zulily (ZU). Other current and past investments include [Bodybuilding.com](/org/bodybuilding-com) (acquired by Liberty Media Interactive), [CarHop](/org/carhop), Veritec, TradingScreen, HighTower and Seaside National Bank.

Eric Carlborg

Jacob Shulman currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer at JFrog Ltd., a software-as-a-service company, which he joined May 2018. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a supplier of computer networking products, from November 2012 to May 2018, Vice President of Finance from March 2012 until November 2012 and Corporate Controller from June 2007 to March 2012.

Mr. Shulman holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Accounting from Tel Aviv University and a Master of Business Administration from College of Management Academic Studies.

Jacob Shulman

Shelagh Glaser is the Director at [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic). Shelagh was previously the CFO & COO, Corporate Vice President Data Platform Group at Intel Corporation from July 1992 to May 2021. Prior to that, they were at [Zendesk](/org/zendesk).

Shelagh Glaser received their MBA in finance from [Carnegie Mellon University](/org/carnegie-mellon-university) and their executive education from [Stanford University](/org/stanford)'s Executive Accelerator for Intel. Shelagh also holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of Michigan.

Shelagh Glaser

Jaan Janes is Vice President, Customer Success, Americas at [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic). He is responsible for managing and growing the company’s publisher customer relationships—and their revenue—with a current focus on wrapper technology, programmatic video and in-app monetization. Jaan also provides strategic insights to the senior leadership teams of [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic)’s publisher partners.

Jaan is a 20+ year veteran of digital media with extensive experience in sales, business development and strategy. He joined [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic) from [Yieldbot](/org/yieldbot), where he was the SVP, Market Development. He joined the real-time consumer intent targeting start-up pre-revenue and led publisher sales and service efforts, later adding responsibilities for learning and development, plus product marketing. Jaan has held sales and sales strategy roles at AOL, sales management responsibilities at Showtime, was CEO of sponsored links ad network Pulse 360, launched the first major professional sports league website on the Internet in 1996—NFL.com. He has also led business development efforts for sports broadcast technology provider Sportvision, whose innovations include the Emmy Award winning, virtual first down “yellow line” for football.

Jaan is a graduate of [Cornell University](/org/cornell-university) and lives in Verona, NJ, with his family.

Jaan Janes

Cathie Black served as the chairman and president of [Hearst](/org/hearst) Magazines, a division of [Hearst](/org/hearst) Corporation, from 1996 to 2010. During her tenure at [Hearst](/org/hearst) Magazines, overseeing both the print and digital operations, she steered the global expansion of over 200 publications, among them Cosmopolitan, [Esquire](/org/esquire), Harper’s Bazaar, and Good Housekeeping, as well as launched some of the publishing company’s most successful new titles, including O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine, and Food Network Magazine, and was a strong advocate for digital innovation.

Prior to joining [Hearst](/org/hearst), Black served as President and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America. Black also served as president and publisher of [USA Today](/org/usa-today), joining the newspaper when it was just a year old, and was widely credited for helping turn it into the number one newspaper in the U.S. Before her time in the newspaper business, Black was the publisher of [New York Magazine](/org/new-york-magazine), the first woman publisher of a consumer weekly in the country. She began her career in advertising sales.

Black served on the boards of [The Coca-Cola Company](/org/the-coca-cola-company), Gannett Co. Inc., [Hearst](/org/hearst) Corporation, and IBM and now is a board advisor and investor to several early stage companies. She is a member of the [Council on Foreign Relations](/org/council-on-foreign-relations), author of the best-selling book Basic Black, and has appeared on Forbes and Fortune’s lists of the most powerful women in business on numerous occasions.

Cathie Black

Mukul has over a decade of software engineering expertise and is one of the four co-founders that started [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic) in 2006. As the president of [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic)’s engineering organization, Mukul is responsible for ensuring that [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic)’s product vision is realized through excellence in execution and helping to drive the company’s continued product innovation. Mukul oversees more than 150 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 advices budding entrepreneurs.

Prior to co-founding [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic), Mukul was the director of engineering at PANTA Systems, a high-performance computing startup. Prior to PANTA, Mukul served as senior manager 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](/org/pubmatic)’s office in Pune, India.

Mukul Kumar

Lorrie Dougherty brings more than 20 years of experience and a diverse people skillset to [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic) as the VP, Human Resources (HR). Lorrie represents the HR function by providing thought-leadership and insight into the best global people practices for [PubMatic](/org/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](/org/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](/org/seton-hall-university)), pharmaceuticals (as the HR Business Partner for National Sales at [Organon](/org/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](/org/pubmatic).

Lorrie graduated from the Honors Program at [Seton Hall University](/org/seton-hall-university) with a bachelor’s degree in communications/psychology and successfully completed her professional studies in the field of Human Resources, obtaining both PHR and SPHR certifications.

Lorrie Dougherty

Rajeev co-founded [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic) in 2006, based on the belief that publishers are underserved from a technology and services perspective, and set out to build an automation software company focused on publishers. Under his leadership, the company has grown and matured into a major enterprise provider with more than 400 employees and 13 locations around the globe. The high pace of revenue and profit growth, is fueled by Rajeev’s commitment to help publishers protect, monetize and manage their most valuable asset – the relationship between consumers, content and brands.

Rajeev is a serial entrepreneur who has raised more than $250 million in funding throughout his career. Prior to [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic), he co-founded Chipshot.com, a leading online retailer of custom-built golf equipment, where he served as vice president of technology. At Chipshot, Rajeev also led product management and development, helping grow the company into a $30 million business. An experienced management consultant, he was also a principal at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, an IT strategy consulting firm for Fortune 2000 clients, where he led teams on IT strategy engagements. In addition, Rajeev was a product marketing executive at SAP, where he was responsible for global go-to-market strategy for new products.

Rajeev serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the IAB. He holds a master’s degree in Computer & Information Technology from the [University of Pennsylvania](/org/university-of-pennsylvania) and a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science and Spanish from the [Johns Hopkins University](/org/johns-hopkins-university).

Rajeev Goel

With over 15 years of experience in new business development, Paulina Klimenko joined [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic) in 2011 where she oversees strategic alliances, M&A and corporate strategy, serving as Senior Vice President, Corporate and Business Development.

Prior to joining [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic), Paulina was a director at [PayPal](/org/paypal) where she negotiated and managed strategic partnerships with Google, [Yahoo!](/org/yahoo), Microsoft and other large Internet and payment players, and she played a leadership role in establishing the X.commerce platform. Prior to that, Paulina headed business development for BlueLithium, a leading online ad network acquired by [Yahoo!](/org/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](/org/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.

Paulina Klimenko

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](/org/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](/org/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](/org/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](/org/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.

Johanna Bauman

Jeff Hirsch is a veteran digital media executive with over 30 years of management and marketing experience. He joined [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic) in 2016, bringing with him extensive experience in startups and high-growth companies, thriving on the energy inherent in rapidly expanding organizations and the challenge of building successful companies. He currently serves as Chief Commercial Officer, overseeing global business efforts in addition to overseeing US Publisher Development and Marketing where he manages [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic)’s global brand and go-to-market strategies, reinforcing the company’s position as the premier automation solutions company for an open digital media industry.

Prior to joining [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic), Jeff was the CMO of personalized video technology company [SundaySky](/org/sundaysky). He has also held several executive-level positions at a range of technology companies: [AudienceScience](/org/audiencescience), where he served as CEO of the global data technology company; Fastclick, where he served as chief revenue officer from start through exit; and ValueClick, where he served both pre-IPO and later as the SVP of business development. Earlier in his career, Jeff was the CEO of the Inc. 500 software company Xytech Systems and the regional ad agency Jeffrey Scott Ltd.

Jeff founded the Behavioral Targeting Consortium in 2008, at the beginning of the digital data revolution, which boasts over 1,400 members, and he also sat on the board of the IAB. He holds a bachelor’s degree in experimental psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jeff Hirsch

Nishant is a seasoned product executive with decades of experience building and launching successful internet and high-tech products. As Senior Vice President, Product Management, he is responsible for driving global product innovation and development across all of the products and solutions. He joined [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic) in 2015 as the header bidding Product Manager, devising strategies with Prebid and OpenWrap to establish [PubMatic](/org/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](/org/pubmatic)’s RTB platform and pipes in addition to our marketplace quality, omni-channel monetization, analytics platform, and efficiency.   

Prior to [PubMatic](/org/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.  

Nishant Khatri

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](/org/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](/org/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](/org/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.

Emma Newman

Jason has more than 15 years of digital experience from a number of senior positions held in Asia and Europe. He joined [PubMatic](/org/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](/org/pubmatic)’s revenue management platform, SEVEN.

Prior to joining [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic), Jason served as the head of commercial development at [News Corp Australia](/org/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](/org/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.  

Jason Barnes

A serial entrepreneur, Amar founded [PubMatic](/org/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 Chief Growth Officer, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Amar runs [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic)’s marketplace group, which is focused on increasing liquidity and driving monetization for the publishers on [PubMatic](/org/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](/org/pubmatic)’s Board and management team drive the company’s overall strategy.

In addition to [PubMatic](/org/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](/org/pubmatic) in a more active day-to-day role. As a 19-year-old student at [Harvard University](/org/harvard), 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](/org/harvard).

Amar Goel

As Senior Vice President of Zillow Premier Agent, Susan oversees the strategy, sales, and operations of the company’s Premier Agent and StreetEasy businesses. Susan also oversees Zillow’s corporate relations function which includes internal and external communications, government relations and social impact

Susan joined Zillow in October 2012 after the company’s acquisition of Buyfolio, a co-shopping platform for real estate agents and their homebuyers that she co-founded in 2009. Prior to Buyfolio, Susan co-founded the award-winning travel website SeatGuru, which was acquired by Expedia in 2007.

Susan is recognized as a leader in the industry, having been named by Inman as one of 33 people who are changing the real estate industry.

Susan earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Johns Hopkins University and currently sits on their Board of Trustees.

Susan Daimler

Kyle Dozeman has worked in the media and technology industries for over a decade. As Chief Revenue Officer, Americas, at [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic), he leads the publisher customer success organization as well as advertiser sales, operations and strategies in the region. Kyle joined [PubMatic](/org/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](/org/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](/org/kpmg) in Ireland.

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

Kyle Dozeman

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](/org/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](/org/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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