MongoDB Appoints Dev Ittycheria as Interim CEO
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NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- MongoDB, the intelligent data platform for the AI era, today announced a significant leadership transition. Chirantan "CJ" Desai, who served as the President and CEO of MongoDB from 2014 to 2025, has stepped down from his role effective immediately. Desai is now pursuing a senior role at Meta Platforms, Inc.
The Board of Directors has appointed Dev Ittycheria as the interim President and CEO of MongoDB, effective immediately. Ittycheria's tenure at MongoDB spanned over a decade, during which the company grew from an early-stage disruptor to a global technology leader, scaling its annual revenue from approximately $35 million to more than $2.3 billion.
The Board has initiated a search process to identify MongoDB's next permanent CEO and has retained an executive search firm to assist in this process. The company remains confident in its business outlook and has reaffirmed its guidance for Q3 and the full year fiscal 2027, which was provided on September 1st, 2026.
MongoDB will be hosting an Investor Day at Nasdaq MarketSite on Tuesday, September 29th, from 11:00 am to 3:15 pm ET. The event will provide an in-depth look at the company's long-term strategy, market opportunities, and product innovation driving the future of developer data platforms and AI.
MongoDB, headquartered in New York, helps organizations move faster, build smarter, and simplify complex architectures on a unified platform for operational data, search, real-time analytics, and AI-powered retrieval, coupled with MongoDB Voyage AI's industry-leading embedding and reranking models. The platform is available as a fully managed service with MongoDB Atlas or self-managed with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced or Community Edition. Millions of developers and more than 70,000 customers, including approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, rely on MongoDB for their most important customer-facing applications.
The company's leadership transition comes as it reaffirms its commitment to its long-term strategy and market opportunities. MongoDB's next permanent CEO will be identified through a comprehensive search process, with the Board and an executive search firm assisting in this process. The company remains confident in its outlook for the business and is reaffirming its guidance for Q3 and the full year fiscal 2027, which was provided on September 1st, 2026.
MongoDB's Investor Day is an opportunity for investors to gain insights into the company's future plans and strategies, including its long-term strategy, market opportunities, and product innovation. The event will be live-streamed and accessible to all interested parties.