Neal Mohan

Neal Mohan (born July 14, 1973 ) is an Indian American business executive who is the chief executive officer of YouTube.

Mohan was born in Lafayette, Indiana.

He spent most of his childhood growing up in the United States before moving to India during adolescence.

Neal Mohan was born in 1973 in Lafayette, Indiana, to Indian Hindu immigrant parents.

He grew up in the U.S. state of Michigan, as well as in Florida, before briefly spending a few more years in India during high school at St. Francis' College.

By the 1990s, he moved back to the US and attended Stanford University.

At some point between then and the 1990s, Mohan moved back to the United States.

Following his graduation in 1996, he worked at Accenture, before joining a startup called NetGravity.

He swiftly became a prominent figure within the company.

He attended Stanford University, graduating in 1996 with a degree in electrical engineering.

After graduation, Mohan worked at Accenture, then owned by Arthur Andersen.

In 1997, he joined a startup called NetGravity, becoming a key figure in the company's operations and greatly expanding its prominence.

In 1997, NetGravity was acquired by DoubleClick.

Mohan moved from California to the company's headquarters in New York.

In the next several years, he gradually became more involved in central business affairs within the company, with DoubleClick relying on him for cutting costs in the wake of the burst of the dot-com bubble.

He became the vice president of business operations.

While he was at Stanford, DoubleClick began to face serious issues stemming from its acquisition of Abacus Direct in 1999.

The merger was de facto annulled by Hellman & Friedman, who acquired DoubleClick and split off Abacus Direct from it.

Hellman & Friedman requested that longtime executive David Rosenblatt become CEO of DoubleClick in the wake of the company's partition.

After returning to Stanford in 2003 to pursue his MBA, Net Gravity's parent company, DoubleClick, which had acquired the company in 1997, began to undergo serious issues stemming from another 1999 acquisition of Abacus Direct; this ultimately led to the merger being effectively annulled.

In 2003, he returned to Stanford to pursue his MBA.

Mohan was enlisted by David Rosenblatt, who had become DoubleClick's new CEO in the wake of the split, to work at the company in 2005.

Together, they reoriented the company, devising a plan said to still have an influence on Google's operations.

Rosenblatt accepted this offer and also enlisted Mohan after he acquired his MBA in 2005, under Mohan's conditions that he would stay in California.

Together, Rosenblatt and Mohan devised a plan to orient DoubleClick towards being a company vested upon advertising exchange, core ad technology situations, and an extensive ad network.

This plan was outlined in a 400-slide PowerPoint presentation, said by those who created or have seen it to still have influence on current business plans by Google.

The plan was presented to the board of DoubleClick and Hellman & Friedman in December 2005, who approved it.

DoubleClick was acquired by Google in 2007, an acquisition largely oriented by Google executive Susan Wojcicki.

She and Mohan extensively worked together for the next fifteen years.

On April 13, 2007, Google agreed to acquire DoubleClick for US$3.1 billion.

Google executive Susan Wojcicki largely orchestrated this action.

For the next 15 years, she worked extensively with Mohan, who formally joined Google in 2007, playing a key role in the integration process with DoubleClick.

Throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, he spearheaded much of the company's ventures, such as YouTube TV, YouTube Music, YouTube Premium, and YouTube Shorts.

Upon Wojcicki's resignation in February 2023, he succeeded her as CEO of YouTube.

While at Google, Mohan managed the company's 2010 US$85 million acquisition of Invite Media.

Before moving to YouTube, he was senior vice president of display and video ads at Google.

In 2011, Rosenblatt, who was now a board member of Twitter, attempted to hire Mohan as chief product officer.

Though Mohan nearly accepted, Google paid him US$100 million to remain at the company.

A former Facebook senior executive also stated that he attempted to hire Mohan while he was at Google.

In 2015, Mohan became CPO of YouTube, which Wojcicki headed as CEO.