Who We Are
Komli is made up of a diverse team of folks who have lived around the world including the US, China, Switzerland, and India. We love to help our customers, build cool stuff, and have a good laugh! Since we didn't want to bore you with everyone's backgrounds here's a bit of info on some of our leadership team.
Leadership Team
Amar Goel, Founder and CEO
Amar founded Komli in October 2006. He previously led a sales and service team at Microsoft/MSN for the financial services and retail verticals. Amar previously founded and ran Chipshot.com, a leading online golf-etailer. He has also worked at McKinsey & Co, and Netscape Communications. Amar is a graduate of Harvard University, with a Masters in computer science, and a Bachelors in economics. He loves to play golf and once fell in a creek while playing.
Amit Bhartiya, Business Head, Lead Generation
Amit spearheads Komli Media’s efforts in the lead generation space, including LoanRaja, an online destination for consumers to research and find the best deals in financial products. Before joining Komli, he was Director (and co-founder) of eBay India Motors – heading India’s largest online used vehicle marketplace. He led the Business Development & Corporate Sales function at Baazee.com (prior to its acquisition by eBay in 2004). A Chartered Accountant, he has over eight years of experience, specifically within the online and e-commerce space.
Vaishali Cooper, CFO
As Chief Financial Officer, Vaishali is responsible for overall finance, strategy, and mergers and acquisitions at Komli. In her last role, Cooper held the position of Chief Financial Officer and Strategy Head at eBay India, India’s largest e-commerce site. She has rich cross-functional experience in the Indian consumer internet space with over seven years of experience in heading finance and strategic functions for eBay India and Bazee. Vaishali is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Akshay Garg, Founding Manager and Business Head, Ad Network
Akshay leads Komli Media’s ad network where he is responsible for operations, sales, overall strategy and business management of the unit. He previously ran a cross-border consulting company and an Indian restaurant in Kunming, China, and built India’s leading offline Chinese school in New Delhi. Before getting bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, he worked as an analyst at the United Nations in Geneva and at Deloitte Consulting in Seattle. A Sinophile, Akshay speaks fluent Chinese and gets an itch if he doesn’t make it there at least once every six months. Akshay did post-graduate work in economics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and attended Whitman College in USA for his Bachelor’s degree. He likes mountain biking and playing tennis.
Satish Kadu, VP of Product Management
Satish leads Komli Media’s product team, driving increased investment in products oriented to help marketers target consumers with unparalleled precision and improve publisher monetization. He brings with him a decade of experience, having worked with companies such as MIH India, Yahoo Inc, Microsoft Corporation and Wipro Technologies. In his previous role as a member of the founding team at MIH India, Satish conceptualized some of its most innovative products like dwaar.com, India’s first vertical search engine. Satish holds a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Mumbai University and a MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Mukul Kumar, VP of Engineering and Founding Engineer
Mukul is responsible for Komli's engineering team and resides in Pune, India. Mukul was previously the Director of Engineering at PANTA Systems, a high performance computing startup. Previous to that he joined VERITAS India as the 13th employee and helped it grow to over 2,000 individuals as Director of Engineering for the NetBackup group, VERITAS' main product. He has filed for 14 patents in systems software, storage software, and application software and proudly proclaims his love of π and can recite it to 60 digits. Mukul is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur with a degree in electrical engineering.
