A serial entrepreneur, Amar co-founded Safeter (http://safeter.work), a company bringing employees and employers back to work safely via vaccination tracking, employee scheduling, and collaboration.
He previously founded PubMatic (NASDAQ: PUBM), serving as the company’s first CEO. PubMatic develops products for the digital advertising industry. Currently, as Chief Innovation Officer, Founder, and Chairman, Amar runs PubMatic’s marketplace group.
In addition to PubMatic, Amar also founded several other companies, including Komli Media, the leading independent advertising technology platform in the APAC region. As a 19-year-old student at Harvard University, 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. Amar has previously led 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.
He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University.