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Dwight Merriman, CEO & Co-Founder
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Dwight is CEO and Co-Founder of 10gen, and one of the core MongoDB kernel committers. 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. He is also a board member of the web photo/video sharing company Phanfare. Dwight received a B.S. in Systems Analysis/Computer Science from Miami University of Ohio. 
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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. 
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Roger Bodamer SVP, Products and Engineering
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Roger heads the West Coast Operations for 10gen. He has over 20 years of experience of building and delivering great and innovative products to market and has deep expertise and knowledge of database architectures and internals. Roger holds several patents for database and middleware technology. His experience leading product development and engineering teams includes 12 years with Oracle's Database and Application Server development organization where he pioneered products that delivered heterogeneous interoperability, as well as several years as SVP of product operations and engineering at Apple's PowerSchool division. Roger also held leadership positions at OuterBay and Efficient Frontier. He earned a Bachelor's degree in computer science from the HogeSchool Enschede. 
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Kerry Ancheta SVP, Worldwide Sales
With over 15 years in the database business, Kerry Ancheta leads 10gen's worldwide sales and marketing organization. Prior to joining 10gen, Kerry spent over 8 years leading enterprise and embedded sales in various global markets for MySQL Inc.; helping to lead it to a successful acquisition by Sun Microsystems. He combines a deep knowledge of open source business with traditional commercial business. Kerry received his B.A. in Business from the perpetually wet University of Washington. He is also an adventurous traveler having visited over 36 countries around the world.
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Kyle Banker, Software Engineer
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Kyle maintains the MongoDB Ruby Driver and supports the Ruby developer community. Previously, Kyle built e-commerce and social networking applications, and he once worked as teacher of languages and literature. Kyle has presented MongoDB in numerous forums; he's the author of the forthcoming MongoDB in Action, to be published by year's end. 
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Kristina Chodorow, Software Engineer
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Kristina is a software engineer at 10gen, where she is a developer for MongoDB and maintains the PHP and Perl drivers. She has presented at meetups and conferences around the world, including OSCON, Latinoware, and FOSDEM. She has published articles in various technical magazines and is currently working on MongoDB: The Definitive Guideto be published with OReilly. She lives in New York City and enjoys cartooning in her free time.
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Mike Dirolf, Software Engineer
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Mike maintains the MongoDB client drivers for Python and Ruby. He also takes time out to talk about MongoDB and has presented at EuroPython, Strange Loop Conf, ReR, RuPy, RubyConf, CodeMash and FLOSS Weekly as well as at various meetup groups around the world. He is currently working on writing MongoDB: The Definitive Guide 
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Tony Hannan, Software Engineer
Tony recently joined 10gen and is starting off working on the Haskell and Erlang drivers for MongoDB. Previously, he was principal software engineer at CDNetworks (a content delivery network) responsible for optimal request routing, load balancing, and content allocation. Before that he did research in distributed systems and programming languages at Georgia Tech and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He has also worked on commercial systems at IBM and EDS. Tony received a master's degree from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University, both in Computer Science.
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Richard Kreuter, Software Engineer
Richard has wrangled code in bioinformatics, websites, compilers, airfare search, among other randoms. About half a career ago, while boggling at a hairy bioinformatics database schema, he often asked to himself, "Why are we trying to shoehorn as-yet-unstructured facts of cutting-edge science into a data model meant mostly for plumbing parts and payrolls?"
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Alberto Lerner, Software Engineer
Alberto works on the core MongoDB kernel. Previously, he was a developer at Google until 2008, where he designed and built large distributed systems. Before that, Alberto worked on IBM, where he was involved with research on database systems. Alberto received a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in Brazil and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Telecommunications (ENST/Paris) in France.
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Alvin Richards, Senior Director of Service and Enterprise Engineering
Alvin is Senior Director of Service and Enterprise Engineering for 10gen on the West Cost. He has held leadership positions at Oracle and NetApp as well as several startups in the Archiving, Web Platform and Java instrumentation spaces. With 20+ years of combined experience in these areas, what he most enjoys is building cool products and great teams and challenging the status quo. Alvin earned separate degrees in Computer Science and Photography from Thames Valley and Nottingham Trent Universities in the UK.
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Aaron Staple, Software Engineer
Aaron has contributed to all aspects of MongoDB's low-level implementation. Prior to joining 10gen, Aaron worked as a technical consultant in the financial sector. He began his career developing distributed video processing software at Sun Microsystems. Aaron received a BS with honors and distinction in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University and an MS in Computer Science, also from Stanford.
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Mathias Stearn, Software Engineer
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Mathias works on the core MongoDB server and maintains the C language driver. Previously, he worked at FactSet where he used MongoDB in a log analysis application. He has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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Chris Triolo, Engineering Intern
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Chris is working with 10gen as a part of the 2010 hackNY Fellows Program. Chris is currently attending Princeton University and will be graduating with the Class of 2012.
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Valerie Allman, Account Manager
Valerie is responsible for driving sales and ensuring customer success for the 10gen enterprise sales team. Valerie brings to her role extensive experience in enterprise software, data networking, and SAAS sales and marketing. Most recently, she served 2 years at Oracle Corp and Sun Microsystems, selling MySQL RDMS. Prior to Oracle, Valerie worked in major accounts at AT&T for 7 years. There she managed a team of data sales engineers, customer support and professional services individuals, focused on managing some of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley, ultimately growing them into major accounts. Valerie has a minor degree in Computer Science and a passion for insuring each customers personal goals and success.
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Meghan Gill, Marketing
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Meghan Gill leads the marketing efforts at 10gen, and supports the open source community around MongoDB. She organizes developer events to educate and grow the MongoDB community, including conferences, user groups, contests, training, webcasts, and more. In addition, she helps manage the company's finances, Human Resources, and New York City office. She graduated from Brown University with honors in 2006. 
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Adam Kroll, Marketing
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Adam promotes the adoption of MongoDB and 10gen commercial support through conferences, events, and social media. Prior to 10gen, he worked in a genetics research laboratory performing experiments and bioinformatic analysis of genomic data. Adam received an Sc.B. in Biology from Brown University. 
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Nosh Petigara, Product Strategy
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Nosh is Director of Product Strategy at 10gen, the company that sponsors and provides commercial support for the open source project MongoDB. Prior to 10gen, Nosh headed product management for OATSystems. He has an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor's and Master's in Computer Science from MIT.
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Kevin P. Ryan
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.
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.