Naveen Tewari

CEO and Founder

Naveen is the founder of InMobi and responsible for the overall vision, strategy and execution of InMobi. His view of the growth of the mobile ecosystem and leveraging InMobi as a key tenet in developing that mobile ecosystem was the foundation stone on which InMobi was built.

Naveen's journey started with McKinsey & Company where he worked on developing the go-to-market strategy for a large Indian conglomerate, as it entered the telecom sector. He has also worked with the top management of technology companies on various issues. Later, he joined Charles River Ventures (CRV), a top tier VC firm focusing on early stage investing in software and communications. Naveen worked with CRV on developing its India investment strategy. He also worked briefly with a mobile VoIP startup in Silicon Valley.

Naveen is the Founder and Chairman of a US based non-profit organization, India School Fund (ISF), which has been formed to set up schools in rural India. ISF started in 2006 with only a few Harvard Business School friends and has now grown to have over 50 people across India and US.

Naveen obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT) and has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School (HBS). At HBS, Naveen was the recipient of the "Dean's Award", the highest honor for his exceptional leadership and contribution.

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Anne Frisbie

VP & GM of Global Supply

Anne joined InMobi in 2008 as Head of North America. She most recently served as Vice President of Category and Sales Intelligence at Yahoo! At Yahoo, she was charged with managing Yahoo’s most important categories that accounted for a majority of the company’s revenue. She and her team provided leading branded advertisers and top-tier agencies, strategic insights and digital media solutions. Anne has been working in the digital media industry for the past fifteen years.

She helped found an online shopping service in 1996 that was ultimately funded by CMP Media, and then she focused on local search in 1997 at Zip2 Corporation where she served as a Director of Publisher Development. Zip2 was acquired by AltaVista in 1998. Anne worked at AltaVista as a Director of Strategic Alliances, and then later ran sales and business development for the company until it was sold to Overture in early 2003. Prior to her work in digital media, Anne was an investment analyst at Goldman Sachs.

Anne is an active member in the mobile community. In 2011 she was selected as one of Mobile Entertainment Magazine’s Top 10 Women in Mobile and in 2012 became Business Insiders #6 in their Most Powerful Woman in Mobile Advertizing. She sits on the MMA’s North America Board of Directors and on the board of the IAB’s Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence.

Anne holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Georgetown University. Anne believes that good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and find a solution. She is an avid wine collector, loves playing duplicate Bridge and is the proud mother of three children.

Amit Gupta

Co-Founder & VP of Revenue & Operations

Amit spearheads InMobi's growth efforts by focusing on strategic alliances as well as managing publisher relationships. He has also played a key role in developing the company's business strategies and entry into various geographies.

Prior to InMobi, Amit founded Analytics works, a company focused on business intelligence and which he brought to profitability before starting InMobi. Amit has also worked in a Bay area startup, Andale, where he successfully contributed in developing the business strategies and processes of the startup. He worked directly with the CEO to help initiate new areas of revenues for the company. Amit also gained deep insight about how to leverage technology to enable business during his early professional years.

Amit completed his undergraduate studies from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT). Amit loves explaining any complicated topic to a novice by articulating relevant real life examples. The growing usage of mobile phones in the developing markets inspired Amit to co-found InMobi. Amit aspires for InMobi to be one of the globally successful internet product companies emerging out of India.

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Sharat Khurana

VP of Finance

Sharat is responsible for financial management of InMobi's global operations. His responsibilities range from budgeting to investor relations to business and investment analysis.

Sharat has held a variety of roles which have encompassed all aspects of strategy, operations and corporate finance and given him well rounded skills that help set the direction for finance at InMobi. In his past he has been with Capital One, a leading US bank where he was responsible for portfolio strategy of their $35 billion prime and super prime credit card portfolio. He also worked with Travelocity.com and its parent Sabre Holdings for 6 years where he held several finance and strategy roles including CFO of their Operations, Product Development and Marketing.

Sharat holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Bangalore University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Shrikant G. Latkar

VP of Marketing

Shrikant is responsible for all marketing activities for InMobi globally. Additionally, he is also responsible for market research (InMobi Insights) and corporate communications.

Shrikant has spent over 18 years in the technology industry in a wide variety of marketing, product management, and engineering leadership roles. Prior to InMobi, Shrikant was responsible for marketing all products and solutions for the Aricent Group comprising of three strategic business units - product engineering services, carrier services and solutions, and frog. He has also worked in various leadership roles in marketing, product management and engineering at Juniper Networks, Avaya and Lucent Technologies Bell Labs.Having lead both products and services businesses, Shrikant brings a well rounded perspective for all aspects of product management and marketing.

Shrikant holds a Bachelor's in Electronics and Communications engineering from Karnataka University, India and an MBA from the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, USA. He is also an advisor to the startup Vistapointe based in Silicon Valley.

An avid speaker, blogger and writer, Shrikant is passionate about the intersection of technology and the user, and loves to build innovative solutions that make a difference in peoples’ lives. He is based out of our San Francisco office.

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Atul Satija

VP and MD of APAC

Atul joined InMobi in December 2010 to manage and further scale up our business in the Asia-Pacific region. He brings a lot of mobile advertising and digital media experience and joins us from Google where he was the Head of Wireless Business for Japan & Asia-Pacific. At Google, he was responsible to drive the mobile ecosystem, strategy and partnerships with carriers, OEMs and publishers across the region. He also served as the Head of Business Development for Google in India where he kick-started and scaled up Google's search syndication, adsense, mobile, android, distribution and enterprise businesses. Prior to Google, Atul has handled various sales, consulting and business development roles in organizations across telecom and technology sectors including Adobe, Samsung and Infosys.

In his spare time, Atul runs a non-profit – EndPoverty - as its Chairperson and works towards sustainable poverty alleviation in India. Atul holds a Masters in Business Administration with a dual-major in Strategic Marketing and Technology from Indian School of Business and B-Tech in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology. Atul was attracted to the vision of building a global mobile advertising business, and to the early success of InMobi and its extremely talented and focused management team.

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Mohit Saxena

Co-founder & VP of Technology

Mohit is the Technology Founder and is responsible for InMobi's technology development, including infrastructure, application management and IT.

Prior to joining InMobi, Mohit was based out of San Francisco and managed the technology operations at Virgin Mobile, world's largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). At Virgin Mobile, he was instrumental in designing and deploying post-paid billing system and revenue recognition system on a pre-paid platform. This helped significantly to make Virgin Mobile the largest and the most successful MVNO in the US. Mohit has also worked at AT&T and is a part of several patents filed in the telecommunication area.

Mohit completed his undergraduate studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT). He has an eye towards innovation and simplicity and is passionate about technology and its possibilities. Mohit was always fascinated by tales of people with small ideas turning them into global powerhouses and always dreamed of being the part of such an endeavor himself. So when opportunity knocked at his door to be the Technology Founder of InMobi, he jumped at it. It is Mohit's belief that strong discipline and desire to be at the top of the world will one day make InMobi one of the biggest and the smartest companies.

Piyush Shah

VP & GM, Developer Platform and Performance Advertising

Piyush Shah joined InMobi in October 2009 and serves as Vice President and General Manager for Performance Advertising and Developer Platforms. He is responsible for the overall vision, strategy and execution for InMobi's global performance advertising business - helping customers to acquire quality users through app installs and lead generation offerings. Piyush also heads InMobi’s Developer Platform initiatives and drives the roadmap to enable global app developers to effectively acquire, monetize and retain users.

He brings to InMobi over 13 years of experience in entrepreneurship, strategy, business development, product management and operations. Prior to joining InMobi, Piyush had corporate stints as the Associate Vice President with Deutsche Bank and Product Manager at Citigroup. At Deutsche Bank, he was part of the core team that established their Payments & Private Banking business in India. He also founded LearningSpiral, an educational portal and youth marketing venture, and was awarded the accolade as one of India's Innovative Youth Entrepreneurs by Business World.

Piyush is based in our Bangalore office. He graduated from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad with an MBA in Strategy and Marketing and was elected President of the Mumbai Alumni Chapter. He received his Bachelors in Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.

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Abhay Singhal

Co-founder, VP of Global Sales & MD EMEA

Abhay has been instrumental in building InMobi into a global mobile advertising network and has contributed greatly towards the company's success and growth over the past years. He is responsible for sales development as well as developing global revenue strategies.

Abhay displayed his entrepreneurial streak in his undergraduate years itself by co-founding a company, TeN, and raising VC money shortly thereafter. He was the Head of Sales at TeN and the company's revenue grew significantly under him.

Abhay completed his undergraduate studies from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT). The urge to build a company of a global scale is what prompted Abhay to co-found InMobi. Abhay follows a very simple mantra: the very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision and also what it takes to translate it into action.

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Monisha Tambay

VP of People Operations

Monisha joined InMobi in April 2012 to lead People Operations globally. With over 15 years in the field of Human Resources, she brings to InMobi rich global experience in the areas of HR strategy &measurement, Organization Design & Development interventions, Leadership Development, Performance Management,Transition & Change Management and Employee Relations.

Monisha has worked in various leadership capacities with companies like Hewitt Associates, StorageTek, Genpact and Subex Limited. In her last assignment as Global Head &VP Human Resources at Subex, Monisha was honoured with two prestigious awards - The Women Super Achiever Award at the Asia Pacific HRM Congress Awards in September,2011 and The Women at Work Leadership Award at the Rasbic Awards during the World HRD Congress in February, 2012.

Monisha has graduated from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics (Mumbai University) and has an MBA from XLRI. She is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

She is extremely passionate about people and believes in providing strategy and advice that talks not just to the boardroom but also to front line associates. A result oriented leader, Monisha is a great asset to InMobi.

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Chandrashekhar Vattikuti

VP of Product Management

Chandra joined InMobi in August 2011 to lead Product Management globally. He brings to InMobi, a wealth of experience in building products and product organizations that span Data & Analytics, Advertising marketplaces, Consumer platforms and Mobile applications. He has worked in diverse fields like Bio-Informatics, Hardware and software for interactive Television, enterprise content and document management and Internet.

Previously, Chandra worked for Microsoft where he was responsible for development and roll out of key offerings in the Search marketplace that monetizes Bing and Yahoo search traffic. Prior to the Microsoft stint, Chandra was at Yahoo and was responsible for building Data platforms and Insights tools to unlock value from Yahoo’s data assets.

Chandra holds a Masters in Computer Applications from Osmania University, Hyderabad and a Masters in Business Administration in Finance from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (ISB).

Crid Yu

VP & MD of North America

Crid Yu is Vice President and Managing Director, North America for InMobi, where he is accelerating the phenomenal growth of the region. Crid is a digital media industry veteran with experience growing transformational businesses at Google and Demand Media. Previously, he held senior leadership positions during his eight years at Google. He was responsible for the top 1000 strategic partners in Google's US Display Business, and was also a key member of the management team in Asia Pacific, where he established Google's operations in China, Hong Kong, and Korea. In his role as SVP, Strategic Partnerships at Demand Media, he developed partnerships that expanded distribution and increased revenue.

Prior to his career in digital media, Crid was an Associate Principal at the management consulting firm McKinsey and Company. Crid holds both a BS and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.