Gowthaman Ragothaman
Founding CEO at Saptharushi
Building enterprise marketing data infrastructure that bridges first-party data management, identity resolution, and privacy-compliant audience activation — particularly through his founding of Aqfer.
Last updated May 30, 2026 by the ATDb Editorial Team
Gowthaman Ragothaman is Founding CEO of Saptharushi, a Singapore-based company offering a unified system of privacy and data technologies — differential privacy, distributed ledger, federated learning, AI, asset tokenisation, spatial computing and consented wallets — for the marketing industry. He previously founded and led Aqilliz, a blockchain and privacy middleware company for marketing, and spent over two decades at WPP, including as Global Blockchain Solutions Lead at GroupM and in senior leadership at Mindshare across Asia Pacific.
Founding CEO
Aqilliz (2019–2025)
Global Client Lead & Global Blockchain Solutions Lead
GroupM (WPP) (2018–2019)
Chief Development Officer, APAC/MEA
Mindshare (2018)
Global Chief Strategy Officer, FAST
Mindshare (2017–2018)
Chief Operating Officer, APAC
Mindshare (2014–2017)
- Co-founded Aqfer to address enterprise-scale marketing data management and identity challenges in the cookieless era
- Led product and general management at X Plus One through its acquisition by Rocket Fuel, scaling data-driven programmatic capabilities
- Built Aqfer's platform to support data orchestration and identity resolution without dependency on third-party cookies