Rajeev Goel

Rajeev Goel co-founded PubMatic in 2006 with his brother Amar Goel and co-founders Anand Das and Mukul Kumar, and has served as the company’s CEO continuously since inception. He took the business public on the NASDAQ Global Market on December 9, 2020 under ticker PUBM, one of the first ad-tech operators to test the post-pandemic IPO window — the stock closed up nearly 50% on debut.

Before PubMatic, Goel co-founded Chipshot.com, an online retailer of custom-built golf equipment, where he served as vice president of technology. He was a product marketing director at SAP and a principal at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants prior to that. He holds a master’s degree in Computer and Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s in Economics, Political Science and Spanish from The Johns Hopkins University, where he now serves as a Trustee. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

Goel is one of the few independent SSP CEOs to have scaled and sustained a public company through the post-Magnite-merger consolidation cycle. His April 22, 2026 pre-announcement of Q1 2026 results above guidance — packaged with the simultaneous departures of Chief Growth Officer Paulina Klimenko and Americas CRO Kyle Dozeman, and a Heidrick & Struggles search for a consolidated global CRO — set up the May 7, 2026 print as the next material read on PubMatic’s narrative.