The 10gen Team

Dwight Merriman, CEO & Co-Founder

Dwight, who is responsible for driving the strategic vision of 10gen, is one of the leading engineering minds in the Interactive industry — possessing a particular knack for solving the most complex problems. 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, a content distribution network (CDN) which serves hundreds of thousands of objects per second. He is also a board member of the web photo/video sharing company Phanfare. Dwight received a B.S. with honors in Systems Analysis from Miami University of Ohio.

Kevin P. Ryan, Chairman & Co-Founder

Kevin Ryan, one of Silicon Alley's most well-known Internet entrepreneurs, is chairman and CEO of AlleyCorp, a network of affiliated Internet companies that includes six New York-based businesses - 10gen, Alley Insider, Gilt Groupe, Music Nation, Panther Express, and ShopWiki.

Prior to AlleyCorp, Kevin was first president then later became CEO of DoubleClick. There, he was instrumental in building the company from a 20 person startup to a global leader with over 1500 employees. Silicon Alley Reporter voted DoubleClick "New York Company of the Year" and Kevin was named one of the "50 Most Influential Business People" by Crain's New York Business.

Aside from his professional responsibilities, Kevin serves on the boards of the Human Rights Watch and the NYC Investment Fund and is a member of the Insead International Council, the Yale International Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served on the boards of the Direct Marketing Association, The Ad Council and Hotjobs, and the advisory board of Doctors Without Borders. Kevin received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Insead.

Eliot Horowitz, CTO & Co-Founder

As CTO of 10gen's innovative platform technology, Eliot has quickly become one of Silicon Alley's up and coming entrepreneurs, recently voted as one of "Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under Age 25" on BusinessWeek.com. Eliot is also the chief scientist of ShopWiki's breakthrough crawling technology. In January 2005, he began developing the crawling and data extraction algorithm that is the core of ShopWiki's innovative technology.

Prior to ShopWiki, Eliot was a software developer in the R&D group at DoubleClick. In 2004, Eliot won DoubleClick's employee coding tournament that was designed to highlight the competitors' relative skills in the analysis of complex algorithmic problems and the ability to write software to solve those problems.

Eliot received a B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University. He conducted research in artificial intelligence focusing on robotic mapping and navigation. He developed a novel algorithm for mapping spaces using a combination of support vector machines and adaboost that allows more precise navigation of office environments.

Geir Magnusson Jr, VP of Engineering & Co-Founder

With a diverse background as both a technical executive and an internationally known leader in open source software, Geir comes to us from Joost, where he led software development and had responsibility for platform architecture, implementation and delivery. Prior to Joost, he held positions as Director of Middleware Architecture and Open Source Technology at Intel, and Vice President of Products and Strategy at Gluecode, an open source application server startup that was acquired by IBM. He was VP, Engineering and Chief Architect of Adeptra, an innovating communications service provider, and as CTO, guided technology FitLinxx during it's rapid growth years. Geir began his commercial career as an architectural and product lead at Bloomberg Financial Markets where he developed the company's real-time, multi-platform financial data delivery and presentation system. He is also a member of the board of advisors for WSO2, an open source SOA middleware vendor.

In addition to his commercial software experience, Geir is a Director of the Apache Software Foundation, currently represents the ASF on the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process, the organization that governs the evolution of the Java platform, and helped found major open source projects, including Apache Geronimo and Apache Harmony, and has been recognized for his work in the Java ecosystem through a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award.