Bangalore · APAC · AI

Gaurav Jain

Building the future of
ads + AI

Head of Ads APAC at InMobi. 20 years scaling monetization across Google, Meta, Snapchat & more. Now converging business depth with technical fluency — building AI systems that will define the next era of commerce.

20+
Years in Ad Tech
6
APAC Markets
49
Team members
About me
Builder. Leader.
Perpetual student.
GJ
IIIT Hyd · FMS Delhi

Scaling markets, building systems

I'm a business leader with engineering DNA — CS from IIIT Hyderabad, brief SWE stint at Nvidia, two decades of GTM across every major walled garden in the world.

At InMobi, I lead Ads APAC across India, SEA, Japan, and ANZ — overseeing InMobi Exchange, DSP, and Glance. I think in multi-year strategy while shipping quarterly, and I believe the best ad tech leaders of the next decade will be the ones who can sit with engineers as peers.

That conviction is why I'm rebuilding my technical depth from the ground up — studying neural networks, training LLMs, and shipping real AI systems. Not as a hobby. As a long-term repositioning into a Chief Tech + Product + Business Officer archetype.

Ad Tech APAC GTM AI / LLMs Neural Networks Commerce OS Lock Screen Programmatic Mathematics Team Building
Career
20 years,
every major platform.
InMobi 2025 → Present
Head of Ads, APAC — India · SEA · Japan · ANZ
Leading a 49-person team across InMobi Exchange, DSP, and Glance. Driving revenue strategy across 6 markets with Japan as P0 priority. Building Glance Agentic Shopping as the commerce OS of the lock screen era.
ShareChat & Moj 2023 → 2025
Senior Revenue Leadership
Built and scaled monetization for India's largest homegrown social platforms. Deep experience in vernacular-first audience monetization and short-form video ads.
Snapchat 2020 → 2023
Revenue Leadership, India
Drove advertiser growth and brand partnerships across the Indian market. Focused on AR advertising and next-generation creative formats.
Meta 2014 → 2020
Sales Leadership, India & APAC
Scaled advertiser revenue across India and broader APAC. Led key verticals including FMCG, e-commerce, and financial services during Meta's hypergrowth era in emerging markets.
Google 2008 → 2014
Sales & Partnerships
Six years at Google spanning AdWords, YouTube, and programmatic partnerships. Built foundational expertise in search, display, and video monetization.
Nvidia 2006 → 2007
Software Engineer
Started career as a software engineer post IIIT Hyderabad. The foundation that never really left — now being actively rebuilt for the AI era.
AI Projects
Building in public.
Shipping real things.
Strategy · Published
Glance Agentic Shopping
Monetization strategy for AI-powered transactional lock screen commerce — scaling across US, Japan, and India. CTV, lock screen, and mobile app surfaces converging into a unified commerce OS thesis.
Commerce OS Lock Screen Japan · India · US
Deployed · Railway
APAC Morning Brief Agent
Automated daily intelligence agent that pulls live revenue data from Rill, reads Confluence updates, and delivers a structured APAC brief via email and WhatsApp every morning.
Python Railway Rill MCP Resend Twilio
Learning · Active
GPT From Scratch
Working through Andrej Karpathy's makemore/nanoGPT curriculum alongside 3Blue1Brown's neural network series. Goal: genuine mathematical intuition for backprop, transformers, and attention.
PyTorch Transformers Backpropagation Andrew Ng ML
Writing
Thinking out loud
on AI and ad tech.
AI Strategy · 2025
Why the lock screen is the most valuable real estate in mobile commerce
Glance reaches 400M+ users on their lock screen before they even open an app. What if that moment became transactional?
Career · 2025
20 years in ad tech taught me what AI can't replace
Relationships, judgment, and market intuition. But the leaders who survive will be the ones who also understand the models.
Learning · 2025
I'm rebuilding my technical depth at 40. Here's why and how.
CS degree from 2006. Two decades of sales. Now working through backprop and gradient descent on weekends. The honest account.
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Let's build
something great.
Whether it's APAC partnerships, AI collaboration, or just comparing notes on neural networks — I'm always up for a good conversation.