About

Raghavendra Agarwala, also known as Raghu, is a highly experienced technology professional with over 25 years of experience in the media, telecom, and digital asset management sectors. He has worked with multiple startups in various roles such as software engineer, architect, CTO/CEO, project manager, and founder. Raghu has a deep understanding of data-related projects such as audience data, mar-tech, programmatic, and ad-tech. He has held pivotal positions in companies such as Ericsson, Hungama, PlusFourSix, and Mobileum. Currently, Raghu serves as the Global CTO and Director at Infomo, a programmatic ecosystem that aims to become a global player shortly. He is a data-first person and a pioneer in programmatic-in-housing. Raghu helps telcos monetize data, advertisers get better ROI, and publishers get a decent revenue pipe. He constantly looks to improve this ecosystem and invests in future technologies like AI/ML/RL, blockchain, cloud, transformation, and other high-impact business functions. Raghu is always open to hearing good ideas and wants to become a Google alternative for every brand, publisher, online/offline, telco, and all marketing and advertising stakeholders. In the past, Raghu has worked as an Official Member at Global CTO Forum and as the CTO & Co-Founder at TorcAI Digital. TorcAI is an elite programmatic team driven by data science and AI, aiming to deliver depth on RTB, social, search, yield, and other upcoming platforms. They provide programmatic consulting/managed services to global clients and thrive to use their pragmatic approach from buy, sell, and audience side to deliver ROI on marketing investment. This takes a lot of data modeling, ML, AI, RTB analysis, and a highly integrated tech stack. Raghu brings a unique combination of skills like big data, API, AI/ML, and transaction protocols to the table, which are required to deliver products/platforms. His relevant experience in the field is 20.79 years.