Surojit Chatterjee

Founder & CEO Ema

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Surojit Chatterjee is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ema, an enterprise agentic AI company building what it calls universal AI employees — software agents intended to take on defined roles inside Fortune 1000 organizations rather than to assist with individual tasks. He came to it with an unusually direct line of relevant experience: Chief Product Officer of Coinbase from early 2020, through the company’s 2021 direct listing, and before that a Vice President at Google where he helped scale Mobile Ads and Google Shopping into multibillion-dollar businesses, with a period of product leadership at Flipkart in between.

Career Highlights

• Founder and CEO of Ema, building an enterprise agentic AI platform for Fortune 1000 organizations.
• Chief Product Officer of Coinbase from early 2020, through the company’s 2021 direct listing.
• As a VP at Google, helped scale Mobile Ads and Google Shopping into multibillion-dollar businesses.
• Held product leadership at Flipkart, one of India’s largest e-commerce companies.
• Began his career as an engineer and researcher at Oracle.
• Holds a BTech from IIT Kharagpur (1997), an MS in Computer Science from SUNY Buffalo, and an MBA from MIT Sloan (2006).

Professional Journey

Chatterjee graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1997 with a degree in computer science and engineering, and went on to a master’s in computer science at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He began his career as an engineer and researcher at Oracle, and later added an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, completed in 2006.

The defining stretch of his career was at Google, where he rose to Vice President and ran product for mobile search advertising during the period when the industry’s centre of gravity shifted from desktop to mobile. That transition was not a straightforward port: mobile screens were smaller, intent was different, and the advertising formats that worked on desktop did not. Getting it right was existential for Google’s revenue, and the mobile search advertising business he led is reported to have grown past $50 billion. He also worked on scaling Google Shopping into a multibillion-dollar business. In between his Google work he spent a period as a product leader at Flipkart, India’s largest home-grown e-commerce company.

In early 2020 he joined Coinbase as Chief Product Officer, arriving shortly before the most consequential year in the company’s history. He led product through the period in which Coinbase moved from a crypto-native audience toward mainstream accessibility, and through its April 2021 direct listing.

He subsequently founded Ema. Its premise is that the useful unit of enterprise AI is not a tool that assists a person with a task but an agent that holds a role — handling an entire function end to end, with the context and permissions that implies. That framing, universal AI employees, is a deliberately large claim, and the practical question it raises is whether the reliability and accountability enterprises require can be delivered by systems that act rather than suggest. Chatterjee’s combination of consumer-scale product leadership at Google and regulated-environment product work at Coinbase is an unusually apt background for that specific problem.

Education

MIT Sloan School of Management

MBA, graduated 2006

State University of New York at Buffalo

MS, Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

BTech, Computer Science and Engineering (1997)