Harvard professor Tarun Khanna joins the InMobi's Board

InMobi Group named Tarun Khanna, a Harvard Business School professor, as an independent director of the firm.Khanna's appointment expands the Board to seven directors, two of whom are independent.

“We are very excited to have Tarun Khanna join our Board,” said Naveen Tewari, Founder and CEO of InMobi Group. “The breadth and depth of his insights from academia and his expertise as an entrepreneur and board member across varied industries across the globe will stand us in good stead on this journey.”

Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he has sought for over two decades to study the drivers of entrepreneurship in emerging markets as a means of economic and social development.


"InMobi is pushing the envelope on growth and innovation on multiple fronts. I am very excited to be part of InMobi’s next phase of growth in powering artificial-intelligence driven, mobile-first experiences for enterprises and consumers," Khanna said.

In 2015, he was named by the Government of India to chair the national commission to help shape the fabric of India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. In 2018, the Government named him to its commission to help select India’s Institutes of Eminence, the project to enhance India’s leading Universities for the future.