InMobi’s North American operations are a huge part of our global business. Here’s an inside look at the leaders driving this key part of our organization.
Abhay is a Co-Founder of InMobi Group and the CEO of InMobi, a company whose mission is to power intelligent, mobile-first experiences on connected devices.
Abhay drives the company’s global business, enabling the world's leading brands to reach over 1.3 billion people in over 190 countries. Prior to his current role as CEO, he held several different executive positions within InMobi including Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Human Resources.
Abhay was recognized as one of India's most influential and impactful young business leaders by the Economic Times 40-Under-Forty in 2018. During his time as CRO, Abhay drove record revenue growth globally across China, APAC and the U.S. markets, helping InMobi be recognized as one of the 50 most disruptive companies by both CNBC and MIT Technology Review.
Abhay received his Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT). He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Outside of work, Abhay loves cooking and hiking.
Amit is responsible for the global legal function, including privacy and data protection, global corporate and commercial legal matters.
Amit is a lawyer licensed to practice in India and a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Amit has a Bachelor’s degree in science and law degree from the CSJM University, Kanpur.
With over 20 years of experience working with global corporations, Amit specializes in designing and implementing the legal and compliance functions for technology companies and has deep expertise in solving cross-border legal issues, international privacy,and data protection requirements as well as navigating government regulators and authorities, with an objective of keeping the company compliant and a reputed global corporate citizen.
Outside of work, Amit loves spending time with his family, especially answering the kids on their smart questions as they learn about the world around them and exploring the beautiful outdoors with the family. He loves listening to music and setting up a system that can do justice to all genres of music.
“After being around for several years, InMobi is like an extended family. It is always great to be at work, because the culture allows you to explore unchartered territory, feel empowered to take decisions and act based on good faith and trust, all traits of building an entrepreneurial team. It is noteworthy, how building trust is infectious and creates a strong company that fights all odds and always bounces back, stronger,” says Amit.
Esther Shih is the Vice President of HR for InMobi in North America. She is an accomplished strategic business leader specializing in Human Resources, Talent Acquisition and Business Operations with over 15 years of demonstrated success in creating alignment between business strategy and the corresponding talent infrastructure required to accelerate success.
Although she started her career in investment banking, Esther considers herself to a bit of a serial tech startup junkie. She feels privileged to have been an early member of several notable Silicon Valley success stories including Loudcloud/Opsware (building clouds back when everyone thought that clouds were merely fluffy things in the sky – IPO in 2001), and MongoDB (open source database platform - IPO in 2017) where she helped build the foundational HR and business operations infrastructure that accelerated the growth and enabled the early success of those organizations.
When she’s not busy developing talent and streamlining processes at InMobi, you’ll find Esther chauffeuring her kids all over town, waiting in line at Costco, tumbling ungracefully down the slopes in Tahoe during ski season or falling off her paddleboard – her latest Covid investment – as her kids literally paddle in circles around her. You may even catch her doing her best carpool karaoke impression while sitting in traffic.
Esther is thrilled to have the opportunity to help amplify InMobi’s deeply rooted culture of innovation and investing in and developing talent. She’s excited to focus on inclusivity and integrating diverse perspectives as she helps propel InMobi forward in this exciting next stage of exponential growth.
Greg Archibald, as SVP Media for North America, is responsible for leading InMobi’s Agency and Brand Direct business, focusing on driving revenue, adoption and retention across InMobi’s leading solutions for marketers. Archibald brings more than 20 years of experience leading teams across digital, mobile, data and ad tech. His strong track record of driving triple digit revenue growth, exceeding client retention goals and inspiring teams uniquely positions him to help InMobi accelerate platform adoption across brands and agencies.
In his last role as EVP of the America’s at Criteo, he owned P&L responsibility for their largest region and led a 250-person sales and operations team. He has also held senior level strategic revenue positions at NinthDecimal, Datalogix, Yahoo and Intuit. Prior to launching his career in the digital world, he served for over nine years as a pilot in the U.S. Navy.
Greg is passionate about leadership, culture and being a part of fast-moving companies focused on solving customer problems in unique and innovative ways. It was this framework that attracted him to InMobi and he hasn’t looked back.
Greg is a transplant from the Bay Area and now lives with his wife and two children in Westport, Connecticut. Outside of work he enjoys skiing, running, golfing, fly fishing and traveling (in better times).
“The foundation of great companies involves vision, teamwork, execution and recognition,” Greg says. “These are foundational qualities for InMobi and have been at the center of much of the success that we’ve been able to achieve over the years. I believe that every day is an opportunity to do something great. Good news is that I’m not alone in that belief at InMobi.”
Krista Thomas is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Marketing at InMobi.
Prior to InMobi, Krista was SVP Marketing for Amobee, a global provider of advanced advertising solutions that help brands, agencies, and broadcasters unify audiences across all TV, CTV and digital to optimize results and drive growth. There, she professionalized the marketing discipline, developed its TV-first ‘Blue Ocean’ strategy and established best practices in GTM readiness, training, and enablement. She also created the company’s first-ever outbound demand generation practice, delivering marketing qualified leads that converted to $12 million in revenue in CY2020.
Formerly, Krista was SVP Marketing for VideoAmp, which unifies the planning, buying and measurement of linear TV, OTT, and digital video advertising. And before that, she was VP Product Marketing, Mobile and Video for Rubicon Project (now Magnite), where, working closely with InMobi, she helped launch and drive the adoption of programmatic mobile and video advertising worldwide. Those two business divisions now comprise more than 80% of Magnite’s revenue.
Earlier, KT rose through the ranks of such Fortune 500 companies as eBay/Shopping.com, AOL Time Warner and Thomson Reuters. She is an expert in orchestrating financial communications programs around IPOs, M&A transactions, venture investments and quarterly earnings reports. She has also helped launch and build many startups, including Ad.ly, Fan Appz, Quantcast and Sean Parker’s Plaxo. She holds a B.S. in Communications from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and an M.A. in English Literature from Simmons College in Boston.
Outside of work, Krista is dedicated to charitable works, including AdTechCares, which comprises more than 50 advertising agencies, publishers and ad tech vendors dedicated to combating misinformation about Covid19 pandemic and the vaccines, supporting fact-based journalism and affirming that Black Lives Matter around the world.
Kunal Nagpal is the Senior Vice President and General Manager at InMobi Exchange, a marketplace for buying and selling advertisements across apps and mobile websites that work with InMobi. In this role, he is responsible for business strategy, product management, product marketing, enterprise partnerships and client success on the buy and sell side.
Kunal joined InMobi’s Bay Area office in October 2015 after spending 4.5 years with McKinsey and Company in New York. He received an undergraduate degree in engineering and then an MBA from the University of Chicago.
When he’s not working, Kunal can be found spending time with his daughter or wine tasting, something that he is certified to do. He also loves watching stand-up comedy and browsing Twitter, sometimes at once.
Marc is the Chief Financial Officer of InMobi Group. Marc oversees all financial aspects at InMobi including M&A decision-making and global growth as the company continues to expand.
Marc has over two decades of experience working in investment banking focused on growth companies. In the past, he has advised more than 100 clients in transactions totaling over $25 billion. In his last stint, he served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Piper Jaffray’s Technology Investment Banking Group. His transaction experience includes advising on M&A, IPOs and raising private capital across the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Before Piper Jaffray, Steifman was Managing Director at Jefferies and Co. and Bear Stearns, and Vice President at Prudential Securities. Marc graduated with an Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Dartmouth College, and received an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was a linebacker on two championship football teams at Dartmouth but now enjoys a quiet jog, skiing and is learning the guitar. He enjoys spending time with family and doing anything outside! Marc also loves the global mindset at InMobi, where East meets West every day, and intellectual curiosity is rewarded.
Mohit is one of InMobi’s co-founders. Before InMobi, Mohit managed technology operations at Virgin Mobile, designing and deploying their post-paid billing system and their pre-paid revenue recognition system. Mohit earlier worked at AT&T and has contributed to many patents filed in the telecommunications area.
Fascinated by small ideas that turned into global powerhouses, and innovation, simplicity and the potential of technology have always been his passions. InMobi is a both a passion and a dream come true for him.
Mohit has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
Mohit’s passion for technology doesn’t stop at work and he is always on the lookout for ways that he can use it to make his life easier.
“Outside work I am absolutely fanatic about music and particularly EDM. I have been dabbling with mixing and I have a sound cloud account as well and about to reach 1k subscriber and it seems my music is quite popular in Pakistan. I usually get million plays a week.
I am also a dog lover and recently adopted pit bull/Lab mix and she keeps me on my toes all day long,” says Mohit.
Prasanna Prasad is the Senior Vice President and Head of Technology at InMobi. He joined the company in 2015 and is currently based in the Bay Area. He started his career as a research engineer at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in 2004, where he worked on an Optical Character Recognition system for ancient Indian scripts.
Prior to joining InMobi, Prasanna had been an engineer for over 10 years and has worked at e-commerce moguls like Yahoo, Flipkart and Amazon. He has held leadership positions at The Tribune Company and Amazon. He carries a deep passion for creating business differentiation led by cutting-edge technology and has managed to garner extensive leadership experience in the fields of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, marketplace design and high-scale real-time systems. He's a strong believer in the growth mindset and takes deep pride in building high performance teams.
He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two beautiful dogs. When he’s not working, he’s on his gaming console or reading the latest books on neuroscience and human psychology.
Srinivas Chaitanya is the Vice President and General Manager of InMobi Advertiser Platforms. In this role, he oversees InMobi DSP's product and business, including product innovation and marketing, advertiser and agency business operations, revenue delivery and strategic partnerships.
KC began his career at JP Morgan in Hong Kong and spent several years in the telco, media and technology verticals as a consultant for Frost & Sullivan in Kuala Lumpur. He joined InMobi in 2011 to drive global strategy, go-to-market, and operations and finance for the supply-side. He is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In the pandemic era, he can be found reading indoors and running outdoors.
“InMobi has always been about the people - people coming together to achieve big goals and building deep friendships in the process. Moreover, InMobi is the place to build institutions, not just products - that makes it a special place to work. I've had the good fortune of working on building several businesses from the ground up with some of the most entrepreneurial teams in the world,” says KC.
Todd Rose is the Senior Vice President of Global Business Development at InMobi. Todd leads the business development team at InMobi, as well as looks into expanding strategic partnerships with publisher and advertising customers to better leverage InMobi's end-to-end advertising solutions.
Previously, Rose was Chief Business Development Officer for InMarket, the leading 360-degree consumer intelligence and real-time activation platform. There, he led the platform and partnerships team, responsible for enterprise sales of InMarket’s location-based audience data, and attribution measurement solutions to DSPs, DMPs, SSPs and publishers. He also spearheaded agency holding company partnerships and led sales of GeoLink, InMarket’s real-time activation platform. Rose joined InMarket via their acquisition of NinthDecimal, a leading location intelligence platform, where he served in a similar capacity as part of the management team for 8 years.
Rose managed all platform and publisher partnerships and helped transition NinthDecimal from a Wi-Fi advertising network to a leader in mobile location intelligence, growing mobile revenue from less than $1 million to more than $40 million over his tenure. He also played a key role in orchestrating the merger with InMarket. Earlier in his career, Rose led Business Development for YP / AT&T Interactive and had management consulting stints with both McKinsey & Company and Marakon Associates. He started his career in online advertising as a product manager with LookSmart, where he launched the company’s paid search advertising platform.
Rose holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Says Todd, “I am an avid backcountry skier, enjoy playing (and watching) competitive soccer and tennis, and spending quality time in the outdoors with my wife, two daughters and rescue dog Delilah.
I was drawn to the culture of collaborative innovation at InMobi. The company isn’t afraid of making big bets, and rewards risk-taking at every level. I have found that InMobi employees are universally forward-thinking and communicate openly about strategic opportunities and threats. Everyone has a voice, and the culture is generally devoid of hierarchical structures, information hoarding, and fiefdom building that can stifle innovation and agility at other large organizations.”
As the Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations, Varsha manages the global team responsible for all mergers, acquisitions, investments and capital raising at InMobi. Varsha has been a key leader at InMobi for eight years and has spent around 15 years in the global financial services space. Prior to joining InMobi, Varsha spent time in investment banking burning the proverbial midnight oil for a few years. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in engineering and completed her MBA in Finance from IIM Ahmedabad.
She lives in Bay Area with her husband and daughter. When she’s not working, she’s exploring the local running trails or playing some silly games with her daughter.
Interested in working with these leaders? Come join us here at InMobi! InMobi is currently hiring for many roles. To check out all of our openings and to apply, head to https://www.inmobi.com/company/careers/.
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