Gurbaksh Chahal

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Gurbaksh Chahal (born July 17, 1982) is an American Business manager and a very successful entrepreneur.

He was born in the city of Amristar, in Punjab, India to Avtar and Arjinder Chahal. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 4 with his family and settled in San Jose, California. Chahal has created companies worth over $340 million by the age of 25. On December 1998, at the age of 16 he dropped out of Independence High School to start his first venture ClickAgents [1]. ClickAgents was one of the first performanced-based advertising networks in the industry. Two years later, On December 2000 he sold ClickAgents to ValueClick in a $40 million all-stock deal. [2] He was 18 years old at the time.

Chahal had a three year non-compete with ValueClick. On January 2004, he started BlueLithium. BlueLithium was an ad network focused on data, optimization, analytics and a pioneer of behavioral targeting. He has been recognized as an innovator in the online advertising space by Business 2.0 [3] as well as a sought-after speaker, featured at conferences including Red Herring, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Ad:Tech. Under his leadership, BlueLithium was named one of the top 100 private companies in America three years in a row by AlwaysOn. [4]

On September 4th 2007, Yahoo announced that it has agreed to buy BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. [5]

He remains CEO of the company through the transition period. Chahal currently resides in San Jose, California.