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PubMatic CFO Steve Pantelick Announces Retirement

PubMatic announced that Steve Pantelick, Chief Financial Officer, intends to retire after fifteen years in the role. Pantelick will continue to serve as Chief Financial Officer into the first quarter of 2027, and then as a senior adviser through July 1, 2027, to support continuity and a smooth transition. The Company has initiated a search for his successor. Since joining PubMatic in 2011, Pantelick has played a central role in the company's growth from a privately held business into a global public company, leading its finance and legal organizations including accounting, tax, treasury, SEC reporting and investor relations. Since its 2020 initial public offering, revenue has nearly doubled, and the company has generated approximately $450 million in net cash provided by operating activities, returned nearly half of it to shareholders through the repurchase of more than $211 million of its shares, and maintained a debt-free balance sheet.

PubMatic Launches First-of-Its-Kind Autonomous Advertising Governance Framework

PubMatic announced the launch of its advanced guardrail architecture, a first-of-its-kind customizable governance framework purpose-built for autonomous advertising. Rise, a Quad agency, is among the first agency partners to pilot the framework, bringing a performance-first, transparency-driven perspective to how governance should work in practice. The framework gives advertisers and agencies configurable control over how autonomous agents execute campaigns, while ensuring every decision is auditable and accountable. Unlike governance solutions layered on after the fact, PubMatic's guardrails are embedded at the point of execution, inside the same infrastructure where campaigns are built and activated. This architecture is designed to be configured once and work everywhere. When buyers first integrate with AgenticOS, an authorized account administrator sets the organization's governance parameters using natural language prompts to define the rules, thresholds, and approval structures that will govern every campaign that follows. For buyers already operating under the Ad Context Protocol, "AdCP," the framework runs as an independent system check, validating every transaction that touches PubMatic's platform regardless of which AI buying agent initiates it.