MongoDB (MDB) Names Rishi Dave As Chief Marketing Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 18, 2020
  • Modern general-purpose database platform company MongoDB Inc (NASDAQ: MDB) announced that it has named Rishi Dave as Chief Marketing Officer

Modern general-purpose database platform company MongoDB Inc (NASDAQ: MDB) announced that it has named Rishi Dave as Chief Marketing Officer. Going forward, Dave will oversee the marketing organization including marketing operations, corporate communications, demand generation and field marketing, growth marketing and content marketing. And Dave will join MongoDB’s executive leadership team.

MongoDB was built to unleash the power of software and data for developers and the applications they build. Based out of New York, MongoDB has over 18,400 customers in over 100 countries. And the MongoDB database platform has been downloaded over 110 million times and there have been more than one million MongoDB University registrations.

With over two decades of marketing experience, Dave is joining the company from Vonage where he led the company’s global marketing strategy. Previously Dave was Chief Marketing Officer at cloud data and analytics provider Dun & Bradstreet where he was responsible for modernizing the 176-year-old brand and driving its go-to-market strategy. And he spent his career in the technology industry across marketing, business development, and consulting roles at Dell, Rivio, Trilogy Software and Bain & Company.

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“MongoDB has become the world’s most popular general-purpose database and is loved by millions of developers and trusted by thousands of organizations. However, when compared to the total addressable market for database software, the opportunity in front of MongoDB’s footprint is enormous. Rishi’s expertise in using data and analytics to drive marketing strategy and top-line growth and his track record marketing to developers and enterprises make him the perfect choice for our next phase of growth.”

– Dev Ittycheria, MongoDB President & CEO

“I’m thrilled to lead MongoDB’s marketing organization and work with the leadership team to evolve and expand the company’s go-to-market strategy to continue to win the hearts and minds of developers. As an evolving technology company in the incredibly large database market, MongoDB presents a unique and compelling opportunity for a marketer and I’m excited to get started.”

– MongoDB’s Chief Marketing Officer Rishi Dave

Photo Credit: Rishi Dave via LinkedIn