Arjun Pillai

BIO

Arjun, an electronics engineer by education, is a successful Entrepreneur by his career choice and an acknowledged subject matter expert in the field of Sales and Marketing data of all types. After a brief stint at Infosys, following his dream, Arjun founded his first company, Profoundis, in 2012 in Cochin, India. After 2 years of experimental failures with 4 products, he ideated, validated and product managed the 5th product, Vibe – a person and company B2B data provider for sales and marketing. Vibe grew to 100,000+ users from 150 countries with zero dollar marketing and served over 260 companies. Arjun led the team from a team of 4 to 72 raising a couple of rounds of investment. Finally, the company was sold to FullContact Inc (Denver, USA), making the acquisition FIRST EVER product acquisition from the State of Kerala, India. After Profoundis, Arjun was the Head of Data Strategy at FullContact for about 2 years where he ‘owned’ the data asset. He was also serving as the head of data partnerships. B/w his Profoundis and FullContact, he gained a formidable relationship with over 100 data companies. He has consulted for most of the top-notch companies in the space. Arjun is also an insider to the industry and keeps track of startups, trends, funding, acquisitions etc. Building further on his data expertise, Arjun founded DataChain in late 2018. DataChain is an Identity and Intelligence Company focused on Asia and built on blockchain for transparency. DataChain partners with app developers and collect consented, privacy-compliant, anonymized data to build people profiles and cross device identitities at scale. Furthermore, Arjun is a graduate from Microsoft Ventures, Startup Chile and Blackbox Silicon Valley accelerator. He also serves as an advisor for Founder Institute, Denver and for a handful of startups. He is also a TedX speaker, a senior member and volunteer for IEEE (www.ieee.org/) for 12 years including several global board roles.