Celebrate the A100, the most impactful Asian Pacific Leaders.

Chetan Pungaliya, Gautam Golwala, Manish Chandra, Tracy Sun

Co-Founders, Poshmark

Manish Chandra, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Manish Chandra is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Poshmark, where he also serves on the company’s board of directors. As CEO, Manish is responsible for guiding the vision, strategy, and growth of the company. Under his leadership, Manish has applied over 20 years of experience building and scaling companies to create a social marketplace that combines the human connection of a physical shopping experience with the scale, reach, ease, and selection benefits of eCommerce. Prior to Poshmark, Manish co-founded Kaboodle, an online shopping website where he served as CEO, which was acquired by Hearst Communications in August 2007. Before Kaboodle, Manish held executive positions at Versant, Versata (IPO 2000, acquired by Trilogy), and Sybase (IPO 1991, acquired by SAP). Manish holds an M.B.A. in Marketing and Finance from Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

 

Gautam Golwala, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Gautam Golwala is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Poshmark, where he draws on over 15 years of experience scaling data systems and platforms to lead Poshmark’s data and engineering growth strategy. Prior to Poshmark, Gautam led technology and engineering at Kaboodle, an online shopping website where he built information extraction and machine learning systems. Before Kaboodle, Gautam was an early employee at Yodlee, a personal finance software company, where he helped create the industry’s most scalable and robust personal finance data platform built on top of user data. Gautam holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune, India.

 

Chetan Pungaliya, Co-founder & SVP of Engineering
Chetan Pungaliya is the co-founder and Senior Vice President of Engineering at Poshmark, where he brings more than 15 years of experience building and leading engineering teams from the ground up, as well as hands-on platform development. Prior to Poshmark, Chetan was co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Kaboodle, where he oversaw product delivery, operations, and strategy, and also recruited and scaled the engineering and operations teams in the U.S. and India. Prior to Kaboodle, Chetan was the Director of Engineering at OnVantage, Inc. where he managed a distributed engineering team of 50+ employees across the U.S. and China. Chetan holds a B.A. in Engineering from the University of Pune, India.

 

Tracy Sun, Co-founder & SVP of New Markets
Tracy Sun is the co-founder and SVP of New Markets at Poshmark. Tracy is pioneering a marketplace that creates passion and personal connections among users by putting people at the heart of commerce and empowering everyone to thrive. Prior to joining Poshmark, Tracy was Vice President of Merchandising at Brooklyn Industries, a New York City-based fashion retailer. Tracy has spent more than 15 years at the intersection of fashion and technology and has been highlighted as a “Top Female Tech Founder” by USA Today and TechCrunch, a “Woman Making Waves in Tech” by Refinery29, a “Retail Game-Changer” by Marie Claire, and is a member of the BoF 500, the definitive professional index of the people shaping the $2.4 trillion fashion industry. Tracy received her BA from Barnard College at Columbia University and her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.