Former dentsu exec Gautam Mehra joins ProfitWheel as co-founder

Former dentsu exec Gautam Mehra joins ProfitWheel as co-founder

Mehra was dentsu International's chief data and product officer, APAC.

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Mumbai: Gautam Mehra, dentsu International's former chief data and product officer - APAC, has announced that he will be joining the recently announced SaaS platform ProfitWheel as co-founder along with Vivek Bhargava and Aman Khanna.

ProfitWheel is a product company focused on creating a customer data-led marketing intelligence platform for the new direct-to-consumer world.

“Gautam and I have worked together for over a decade, and I am delighted to have him on board as a co-founder," said Vivek Bhargava. "Under his leadership, we will have an increased focus on driving tech innovations and building new products that will enable true intelligence in the mar-tech ecosystem. His past experience of solving a problem local to each market and driving a global product-led solution is precisely what we intend to deliver at ProfitWheel."

Mehra had joined dentsu Group in 2014 as business head – social media division at iProspect Communicate 2. In his last role at dentsu International (previously dentsu Aegis Network), he spearheaded the programmatic and data segment for the group in the region. He also built DMC (dentsu Marketing Cloud), the proprietary data insights to activation stack for dentsu.

“I am driven by building products that solve large business challenges, and this feels like the right time to build something new, as ad tech reinvents itself," Mehra said on his new role. "With ProfitWheel, we are focused on solving the biggest problems for D2C brands on effective customer acquisition, enhanced profitability, marketplace expansion, and growth in the most privacy-compliant manner.”