# Chirag Bakshi

> Chirag Bakshi is the founder and CEO of Zumigo, a San Jose digital identity company that uses real-time mobile carrier and other authoritative data to help businesses verify users and assess fraud risk. His career spans distributed telephone systems at ROLM, Apple’s LaserWriter products, network graphics at EFI, mobile messaging at Unimobile and VeriSign, and more than a decade building mobile identity and authentication products at Zumigo.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Zumigo
- **Organizations:** Zumigo, VeriSign, Unimobile, Electronics for Imaging (EFI), Apple, ROLM, Mobile Marketing Association, Wireless Internet Caucus
- **Education:** Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Master of Science, Stanford University, Master of Science, University of Michigan
- **Known for:** Co-founded Unimobile and helped build its scalable wireless platform before VeriSign acquired the company in 2004., Led VeriSign’s mobile messaging business and represented the company on the Mobile Marketing Association North American board., Founded Zumigo and developed its strategy around mobile identity verification, authentication and fraud risk intelligence.

## Career timeline

- **1982-1984** — Worked at ROLM on distributed PBX switch software.
- **1984-1993** — Held an engineering leadership role at Imagen Corporation.
- **1993-1996** — Served as a director at Apple with responsibility for the LaserWriter product line.
- **1996-2000** — Led a network graphics server business unit as general manager at Electronics for Imaging.
- **2000-2004** — Co-founded Unimobile and served as chief operating officer; VeriSign acquired the company in 2004.
- **2004-2008** — Led VeriSign’s mobile messaging business as vice president and general manager.
- **2009-2011** — Founded Zumigo; company sources describe its founding in 2009 and Bakshi’s identity-focused mission beginning in 2011.
- **2014** — Presented Zumigo Assure at FinovateSpring, demonstrating mobile data for streamlined and lower-risk transactions.
- **2025** — Zumigo announced a no-code/low-code verification workflow platform, SIM-based authentication and expanded multidimensional risk assessment.
- **2026** — Zumigo Assure Insights received a Gold award for Best Real-time Fraud Intelligence Sharing Solution in Juniper Research’s Telco Innovation Awards.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Unimobile and helped build its scalable wireless platform before VeriSign acquired the company in 2004.
- Led VeriSign’s mobile messaging business and represented the company on the Mobile Marketing Association North American board.
- Founded Zumigo and developed its strategy around mobile identity verification, authentication and fraud risk intelligence.
- Is named as an inventor on multiple granted patents and patent applications involving mobile-network authentication, location alerts, device history and fraud-risk analysis.
- Led Zumigo as its Assure Insights product won Gold for Best Real-time Fraud Intelligence Sharing Solution in the 2026 Telco Innovation Awards.
- Served on the Wireless Internet Caucus Leadership Council.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Zumigo Assure Insights was named a Gold winner for Best Real-time Fraud Intelligence Sharing Solution in Juniper Research’s Telco Innovation Awards 2026.
- **2026-01** — Bakshi predicted that autonomous identity verification would correlate behavior across large datasets to intercept multi-vector fraud attacks before they reach account entry points.
- **2025-10** — Zumigo announced no-code/low-code identity workflows, SIM-based passwordless authentication and additional risk signals; Bakshi framed the release as an effort to improve deployment, usability and assessment accuracy.
- **2025-01** — Bakshi predicted continued passwordless adoption alongside a rise in AI-enabled fraud and an expanding role for AI and machine learning in defense.

## Links

- Website: https://zumigo.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiragbakshi

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Last updated: 2026-08-18