Leadership
Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO
Dev joins MongoDB with a strong mix of entrepreneurial, operational and investing experience. Before MongoDB, Dev was a Managing Director at OpenView Venture Partners, and before that he was a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners. Previously, Dev was a founder/CEO of BladeLogic, he took the company public in 2007, and then sold it to BMC Software in 2008 for approximately $900M. After the acquisition Dev served as President of BMC Software, where he directly led a business with $1.4B in annual revenue and more than 4,000 employees. Earlier in his career Dev was founder/CEO of Applica, one of the first venture-backed cloud companies. He eventually merged the business with Breakaway Solutions and the combined company went public in 1999. Dev began his professional career at large and growth-stage telecom companies developing advanced broadband services. Dev also serves as an advisor and/or board member to a number of next-generation software companies as well as leading venture capital and private equity firms. Dev received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, and was recognized by the School of Engineering as its 2010 Alumnus of the Year.
Eliot Horowitz, CTO and Co-Founder
Eliot is one of the core MongoDB kernel committers. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CTO of ShopWiki. Eliot developed the crawling and data extraction algorithm that is the core of its innovative technology. He has quickly become one of Silicon Alley's up and coming entrepreneurs and was selected as one of BusinessWeek's Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under Age 25 nationwide in 2006. Earlier, Eliot was a software developer in the R&D group at DoubleClick (acquired by Google for $3.1 billion). Eliot received a BS in Computer Science from Brown University.
Carlos Delatorre, CRO
Carlos is a software industry veteran with more than 20 years of leadership experience. Before joining MongoDB, he was senior vice president of sales at ClearSlide, Inc., a leading provider of sales management software, where he drove the enterprise sales strategy. Prior to that, he was vice president of sales for DynamicOps, where his team delivered 300% growth in 2011 and 2012, culminating in its acquisition by VMware. He also held senior sales roles at BMC Software, BladeLogic, IMlogic and Oblix. As Chief Revenue Officer, Carlos is responsible for developing and executing MongoDB’s global sales strategy. He has experience working with both early stage companies, as well as large public organizations. Carlos has an MBA in finance from Troy University and holds a B.A. in Psychology, English and Philosophy from the University of Miami.
Meagen Eisenberg, CMO
Meagen brings more than 19 years of experience in the high-tech industry to her role at MongoDB. She has been recognized as one of the Top 50 most retweeted by mid-sized marketers according to AdWeek and one of the Top 25 B2B Marketing Influencers according to InsideView. In 2014, she won the Marketers that Matter award. Additionally, she won the SuperNova Award in Matrix Commerce from Constellation Research in 2012 and the Marketing Visionary Markie award within the marketing automation field in 2011. Meagen advises for several tech startups and before joining MongoDB, she was the Vice President of Customer Marketing and Demand Generation at DocuSign. She also held previous positions with ArcSight, an HP Company, TRIRIGA (acquired by IBM), Postini (acquired by Google) and IBM. Meagen has an MBA with a focus on marketing and strategy from Yale School of Management and holds a B.S. in MIS with a minor in CSC from California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo.
Dwight Merriman, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder
Dwight is one of the original authors of MongoDB, the open-source document database. In 1995, he co-founded DoubleClick (acquired by Google for $3.1 billion) and served as Chief Technology Officer for 10 years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Earlier he was Co-Founder, Chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express (merged with CDNetworks), a content distribution network (CDN) technology. Dwight is also a Co-Founder of, and investor in, Business Insider and Gilt Groupe.
Vijay Vijayasankar, VP & GM, Global Channels and Global Services
Vijay comes to MongoDB with experience in engineering, sales and consulting. Previously, Vijay was a Global Vice President at SAP Labs, driving the engineering of Big Data applications, and worked with customers and partners to remove bottlenecks on adoption. He has more than 14 years experience in consulting for a variety of clients in North America, Europe and Asia. Vijay holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Kerala.