Gokul Rajaram is Product Director, Ads at Facebook. In this role, he drives the product roadmap and execution for Facebook’s advertising products.
Before Facebook, Gokul was Co-Founder and CEO of Chai Labs, a semantic technology startup he grew to profitability and a multi-million dollar annual revenue run-rate before its acquisition by Facebook.
Earlier in his career, Gokul was Product Management Director for Google AdSense. He helped conceive and crystallize the product in early 2003, and played a key role in its launch and growth from 2003 onwards into a multi-billion dollar product line. Gokul was also product lead for a number of acquisitions for Google, including DoubleClick (display advertising/ad serving), AdScape (in-game advertising) and dMarc (Radio advertising).
Previously, Gokul worked as a software engineer and technical lead at Juno Online, an early free e-mail provider ISP in New York (later merged with NetZero to form United Online), where he developed the back-end advertising system that drove much of Juno's revenues and helped it go public in 1999.
Gokul has an MBA from MIT Sloan, a MS in CS from UT Austin, and a B. Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur where he received the President's Gold Medal for being Class Valedictorian.