Leadership
Dwight Merriman, CEO & Co-Founder
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Dwight is CEO and co-founder of 10gen, and one of the original authors of MongoDB. In 1995, Dwight co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Dwight is co-founder, Chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express (now part of CDNetworks), a content distribution network (CDN) technology which serves hundreds of thousands of objects per second. Dwight is also a co-founder and investor in BusinessInsider.com and Gilt Groupe.
Max Schireson, President
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As President of 10gen, Max is responsible for building and extending 10gen/MongoDB's market leadership. Prior to joining 10gen, Max spent 7 years at MarkLogic, provider of a database for unstructured information, where he played a variety of executive roles including Chief Operating Officer. Under Schireson’s leadership, MarkLogic ranked as the 4th fastest growing software company in Silicon Valley in Deloitte’s 2008 Technology Fast 50. Prior to MarkLogic, Max spent 9 years at Oracle where he served as Chief Applications Architect and Vice President, ECommerce and Self Service Applications. Max enrolled to study Mathematics at UC Berkeley at age 14 but in classic Silicon Valley fashion left for the technology industry without a degree.
Eliot Horowitz, CTO & Co-Founder
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Eliot is CTO of 10gen, the company that sponsors the open source MongoDB project. Eliot is one of the core MongoDB kernel committers. Eliot is also the co-founder and chief scientist of ShopWiki. In January 2005, he began developing the crawling and data extraction algorithm that is the core of ShopWiki's innovative technology. Eliot has quickly become one of Silicon Alley's up and coming entrepreneurs, having been selected as one of BusinessWeek's Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under Age 25 in 2006. Prior to ShopWiki, Eliot was a software developer in the R&D group at DoubleClick. Eliot received a B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University.
Erik Frieberg, VP Marketing and Alliances
Erik leads the marketing and alliances team and is responsible for building awareness and opportunities of MongoDB and 10gen and accelerating the sales process. He brings more than 20 plus years of industry experience in marketing, product management and corporate strategy from large companies like HP Software, Borland, BEA and startups like KIVA, Persistence and Netscape. Erik holds a master’s degree in management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University. Learn more about Erik's background at http://www.linkedin.com/in/efrieberg
Ben Sabrin, Vice President of North American Sales
Ben Sabrin loves the business of Open Source software. Previous to 10gen, Sabrin provided consulting services to Appcelerator, helping them to form their executive team, acquire venture capital, and to generate a positive buzz in their space. Like Ben, Appcelerator relocated to the Bay Area from Atlanta, GA.
Sabrin was previously Vice President of Sales, Americas for open source pioneer JBoss, Inc. Sabrin had the distinction of being the company's first non-founding employee. He was a significant factor in JBoss'success and helped drive average annual revenue growth of more than 150 percent during his tenure. Additionally, Sabrin was instrumental in building the technical and management teams at JBoss, as well as orchestrating and defining open source acquisitions such as Hibernate, JGroup and JBPM. Prior to his tenure at JBoss, Sabrin was a Recruiter at Pencom Systems, an IT consulting and recruiting firm. In 1997, he helped to establish the Atlanta Java User Group.
Sabrin is a graduate of Indiana University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business with a Marketing focus. He is an avid sports fan and golfer.
Lily Teng, VP Finance
Lily Teng is VP Finance at 10gen. Prior to 10gen, Lily was recently CFO for imeem, inc. (acquired by MySpace), VP Finance & Administration at Auditude, and has held key finance and corporate development roles at Peoplesoft (acquired by Oracle), Quantum Corporation, and AMD. Lily is a CPA and holds an MBA from The Anderson School of Management at UCLA and a B.S. from The Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Steve Francia, Chief Solutions Architect
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Steve Francia leads the public side of the engineering organization at 10gen including integration, evangelism, support and consulting. Steve brings to this role his experience as VP of engineering at OpenSky where he build the worlds first ecommerce site powered by MongoDB and one of the first PHP sites backed by MongoDB. Steve has been an engineer, entrepreneur and executive since 1995 when he built one of the first ecommerce sites while working for American Telecom. His previous roles include CIO/COO at Portero, VP of Development at Takkle and Founder & CTO of Supernerd. Steve loves open source. He has contributed to dozens of open source projects including MongoDB, Doctrine, Symfony2 and Zoop and has started a few of his own. Steve holds a BA from Brigham Young University in Philosophy, where among other things, he created and taught a course on dynamic web development.
Gerry Treacy, Director of EMEA Sales
As Director of EMEA Sales, Gerry is responsible for driving and expanding sales for 10gen in the EMEA region. Gerry has over 15 years of technology sales and sales management experience. Most recently he spent over 5 years at MySQL/Oracle where he was responsible for leading and growing the EMEA Corporate Sales team during a period of rapid expansion. For a period of time he also led the MySQL Corporate Sales group globally. Prior to MySQL/Oracle, he held roles in sales and sales management both in Europe and California. Gerry is a graduate of Dublin Institute of Technology.
Alvin Richards, Technical Director for EMEA
Alvin is Technical Director for EMEA at 10gen. After successfully bootstrapping 10gen's California office he has recently relocated to London to lead up all technical functions in the EMEA region. He has held leaderships positions at Oracle and NetApp integrating RDBMS and storage technology and has lead and grown the engineering teams for several successful Bay Area startups. Having learnt the hard problems of scaling RDBMS for JPMC and American Express, the discovery of MongoDB appealed not only for its elegant technical architecture and solution but because it also challenged long held beliefs and the status quo.
Vishy Karra, VP Engineering
Vishy leads the engineering team at 10gen. He brings 18 years of experience working in high-growth enterprise software companies, including over a decade of building engineering teams. Prior to joining 10gen, Vishy spent nearly 7 years at VMware building and leading teams working on datacenter products, including the cloud infrastructure platform. His background includes over a decade of database kernel development and management experience at Oracle and Sybase. Vishy has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Board
Kevin P. Ryan
Kevin P. Ryan is the Founder and CEO of Gilt Groupe, an innovative e-commerce company offering highly coveted products and experiences at insider prices.In 2007, Kevin along with a founding team created Gilt Groupe as an invitation-only site for coveted women’s apparel and accessories. Today, Gilt Groupe has over three million members and has added business lines in home; children; men’s apparel and gear (GiltMAN); vacation travel (Jetsetter); local services and experiences (Gilt City), and has launched the leading flash-sale site in Japan (Gilt Japan).
Kevin is one of the leading Internet entrepreneurs in the United States launching several New York-based businesses, including Gilt Groupe, Business Insider, ShopWiki, and 10gen/MongoDB. Kevin helped build DoubleClick from 1996 to 2005, first as president and later as CEO. He fostered DoubleClick's growth from a 20-person startup to a global leader with over 1,500 employees.
Currently, Kevin serves on the board of Human Rights Watch, the NYC Investment Fund and INSEAD, and is a member of the Yale International Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.
Albert Wenger
Albert combines over 10 years of entrepreneurial experience with an in-depth technology background. As an entrepreneur, he has founded or co-founded five companies, including a management consulting firm (in Germany), a hosted data analytics company, a technology subsidiary for Telebanc (now E*Tradebank), an early stage investment firm, and most recently (with his wife), DailyLit, a service for reading books by email or RSS. Albert also served as the president of del.icio.us through the company's sale to Yahoo. His technology background goes back to winning the German national computer science competition at age 18. Albert graduated summa cum laude from Harvard college in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. He has managed technology projects for organizations as diverse as Tacoda (startup) and Telebance (leading Internet bank).
Albert currently serves on the boards of Clickable, a platform for managing online advertising; and Maptuit, a provider of realtime navigation; he is a board observer at Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade goods. Albert is married with three kids and lives in Scarsdale, New York.
Chip Hazard
Chip is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners whose investment interests and experience broadly cover companies and technologies in the information technology sector.
He currently represents the firm on the boards of 1-800-FREE411 (Jingle Networks), 10gen, First Best Systems, Infobright, Placemark, Reveal Imaging, and Sciformix and was previously a director at Bowstreet (acquired by IBM), mValent (acquired by Oracle) and SupplyScape (acquired by TraceLink).
Before joining Flybridge in May 2002, Chip was a General Partner with Greylock Partners, a leading venture capital firm he joined in 1994. While at Greylock, Chip led or participated in numerous successful investments in the enterprise information technology field including Narrative Communications (acquired by @Home), Idiom Technologies (acquired by SDL), iPhrase Technologies (acquired by IBM), IBA (acquired by ServiceSoft/Kana), Storage Networks (IPO), Totality (acquired by MCI) and the Vincam Group (IPO in 1996, acquired by ADP). Prior to Greylock, he was with Company Assistance Limited, an investment and consulting firm in Warsaw Poland; and Bain and Company, an international management consulting firm.
Chip received a BA with honors from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar and a Ford Scholar.