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Phanimohan Kalagara

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CTO at Gracenote
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Phanimohan Kalagara is the CTO of Gracenote, a Nielsen company, where he leads global technology teams and drives platform evolution using AI. His extensive career includes senior technology and product roles at Pine Labs, Flipkart, and PayPal. People who have worked with him describe him as a driven, intelligent, and inspiring leader.

Phanimohan is passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex problems in diverse markets, with a particular focus on Indias fintech and e-commerce landscapes. He actively engages in public-private collaborations, aiming to use data and predictive analytics to address real-time challenges for government and commercial entities.

Early in his career, he single-handedly designed and developed a complete 3D rendering engine for a virtual reality company.

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Experience
29 Years
Current Role
CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Personality Overview

How Phanimohan shows up

Hard To Convince
Judgemental
Upfront

They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully. They can be nudged to make faster decisions by offering what they value. They care equally about the product and its potential impact.

Priorities

Topics Phanimohan cares about

AI in Media
As Gracenote's CTO, he is focused on using AI and machine learning to revolutionize media discovery, personalization, and contextual advertising across fragmented OTT platforms.
Asian Fintech
He has a background as CPTO at Pine Labs and expresses a desire to transform the future of merchant commerce in Asia.
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Career

Work history

10-2024
CTO
Gracenote
8-2022 - 8-2024
CPTO
Pine Labs
10-2021 - 8-2022
CTO
Pine Labs
10-2019 - 10-2021
SVP Product and Engineering
Flipkart
6-2018 - 10-2019
VP of Engineering
Flipkart
In the press

Media appearances

You can't not play in the AI space today: Phanimohan Kalagara .... Featured in Exchange4Media
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AI and Universal Content IDs are ending OTT chaos, says Nielsen .... Featured in Storyboard 18
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Education
1994 - 1996
MS
Utah State University
1990 - 1994
B Tech
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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