CommerceIQ Leadership Team Driving Ecommerce Innovation

Rahul Shah

Chief Executive Officer

Rahul Shah is CEO of CommerceIQ, the AI-native retail growth partner for brands. Rahul has spent more than two decades building and scaling technology businesses across product, engineering, and go-to-market. He was most recently Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ) and held senior leadership positions at PayPal and GE. He also scaled venture-backed companies including Branch Metrics and Applause past $100 million in revenue. He holds an MBA from Berkeley Haas and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Emmanuelle Gounot

VP of Customer Success

Emmanuelle Gounot is the VP of Customer Success at CommerceIQ, where she leads the global strategy for Sales and Shelf solutions for the world's largest enterprise CPG brands. A seasoned leader with over 15 years of experience, her expertise is built on a 360-degree view of the digital landscape, having held commercial leadership roles at both Amazon and Alibaba.

Throughout her career, which spans three continents, Emmanuelle has specialized in bridging the gap between complex data and automated execution. She is currently focused on scaling AI-driven workflows that enable brands to transform retail insights into measurable sales and share gains. Prior to CommerceIQ, she held various leadership positions across the e-commerce and logistics sectors, consistently driving digital transformation for global clients.

Jyoti Gouri

SVP, People & Culture

Jyoti has a detailed and well-rounded experience as a Human Resource Business Partner & Talent Acquisition, specifically in high-tech product development companies in startups and large enterprises.

Her experience covers working in all spheres of HR practice, including Driving Organizational Effectiveness, Talent Acquisition and Retention, Change Management, HR support during Merger & Acquisitions, Compensation & Benefits and coaching in environments under Matrix Structures with Multinational Cultural Sensitivities.

Himanshu Jain

Cofounder and Head of Products

Himanshu is an experienced business leader with 12+ years of experience across product management, customer success, business development, statistical modeling, building enterprise software and services. Himanshu leads product management for the CommerceIQ Advertising platform.

Prior to CommerceIQ, Himanshu advised fortune 100 companies at Kearney and started his career building machine learning models at Capital One.

He has a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and an MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

Dan Shering

SVP EMEA & APAC

Dan is CommerceIQ's SVP of EMEA & APAC, leading the region's new acquisitions and customer retention. He is a seasoned sales leader with over 20 years of experience, specialising most recently in retail media. He is passionate about working with CPG and Consumer Electronics brands and helping them overcome challenges and expand their businesses.

Katen Johal

SVP Retail Media

Katen is an experienced business leader with 13+ years of experience across performance marketing, retail media, business operations and program development.

A sleeves up leader, Katen helped scale 2 agencies through 9-figure exits and now works to solve problems for CommerceIQ's largest clients. Katen holds Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Psychology from the University of California San Diego.

Hari Kosaraju

VP, Finance

Hari leads finance at CommerceIQ and brings more than 20 years of experience as a finance executive. Before CommerceIQ, he spent over eight years at Marqeta, where he joined as one of its earliest finance hires. He was part of the team that took the company public. Earlier, he held treasury, FP&A and corporate strategy roles, including at Discover Financial Services.

Apoorva Gaurav

SVP Engineering

Apoorva brings 22+ years of engineering experience, 16 of them in high-growth startups, taking products from early stage to market leadership and building the teams that get them there.

Most recently he was SVP of Engineering at Clear, leading a 120-person organisation across development, infrastructure, security and quality. Before that, as VP of Engineering at Yellow.ai, he grew the team from 25 to 160 and scaled a conversational AI platform past a billion messages a month. He was Chief Architect at Bounce and spent eight years at Myntra, rising to Principal Architect.

Apoorva holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. He lives in Bengaluru with his wife and daughter, and outside work he runs, cooks, and engages in adventure sports.

Adam Colasanto

Head of GTM, Agentic Products

Adam leads go-to-market for CommerceIQ’s agentic AI products. Before CommerceIQ, he led go-to-market for customer value and AI adoption at Maven AGI. At Vizit, he was VP of Customer Success and VP of Sales Engineering, and he built the company’s services organization from the ground up. Earlier, he led consumer intelligence and data insight teams at Edelman Intelligence and Crimson Hexagon. He holds a B.A. from Niagara University.