About

Prashant Mahajan is an agile thinker and pioneering technological thought leader who consistently discards the status quo and encourages creative thinking. He is highly regarded for building/implementing enabling technologies and distributed systems; developing highly engineered technology products; and orchestrating complex organizational-wide projects. As the founder of Privado.ai, Prashant is building tools for compliance with data privacy laws such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. He simplifies and automates these tasks so that companies can demonstrate privacy compliance. Prior to founding Privado.ai, Prashant served as Senior Director of Engineering at PubMatic, where he was the first employee and developed and scaled many products that had a huge impact on PubMatic’s growth, increasing its revenue to over 100 million USD. He led OpenWrap, Header Bidding and Programmatic teams with revenues contributing significantly to the platform spend, and amounting to millions of dollars. Prashant is recognized for his talent in assembling and retaining massive global engineering teams; scaling infrastructure to serve billions of ads; and catapulting revenue growths of startup companies from zero to a multi-hundred million dollars corporation. He excels at energizing enormous multi-functional teams towards cutting-edge performance of direct impact to project goals. Prashant holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Fergusson College and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from HAL College of Science. He also completed his HSC from KTHM College. His relevant experience in the industry is 16.61 years.