Appian: Serge Tanjga Named As Chief Financial Officer

By Amit Chowdhry • Apr 22, 2025

Appian announced the appointment of Serge Tanjga as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective May 27, 2025. Tanjga will report directly to Appian CEO Matt Calkins. Tanjga succeeds Mark Matheos, who became CFO of Dragos in November.

Tanjga brings over 20 years of financial experience to Appian. And he was the Senior Vice President of Finance at MongoDB where he oversaw financial planning, strategic finance, business operations, and analytics. And most recently, he served as MongoDB’s interim CFO.

Before MongoDB, Tanjga was a Managing Director at Emerging Sovereign Group (a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group). And Tanjga also held leadership positions at the Harvard Management Company and 40 North Industries.

Tanjga received a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.

Appian is a company that delivers a software platform that helps organizations run better processes that reduce costs, improve customer experiences, and gain a strategic edge. And Appian will release financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025 before the U.S. financial markets open on Thursday, May 8, 2025. And the company will host a conference call and live webcast to review its financial results and business outlook.