Rohit Dewan Email Address

Chief Technology Officer and General Manager, Global Product Catalog and Data Platform

Rakuten is a tech company that offers electronic commerce solutions in Japan and internationally.

Rohit is an Executive Officer at Rakuten where he serves as the Head of the Digital Contents Technology Division that spans video (Viki, Wuaki, Showtime), books (Kobo, Overdrive, Aquafadas), Viber, Rakuten Games and TicketStar. In addition, Rohit is the CTO at Viki where he oversees the product, engineering and content operations teams. Prior to Viki, Rohit was the founder of MeetHi, Inc., a social gaming studio based in Silicon Valley, and also operated a boutique e-commerce site that generated more than $1 million in annual revenue. Rohit has previously held positions at various technology startups in social gaming, network security and web services. He also was one of the early engineers working on key products in Cisco’s enterprise VoIP business unit that quickly grew into a multibillion-dollar business. Rohit holds six U.S. patents. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from McGill University with a minor in International Development Studies.