MDB Chief ExecutiveWhat Chirantan "CJ" Desai says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.
President, CEO & Director · MongoDB, Inc.
Took over from founder-era CEO Dev Ittycheria on 10 November 2025 after his predecessor's eleven years. Came from Cloudflare, where he ran product and engineering, and before that ServiceNow, where he was President and COO. Has spent his first year arguing MongoDB is infrastructure that benefits from AI rather than application software threatened by it.
Desai owns about 0% of MongoDB, Inc., worth $27.2M at the last close.
Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). Every input links to a filing or to the career file; the bands are ours.
Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for the filing.
| Security | Held via | Shares |
|---|---|---|
| Common Stock | Direct | 72,753 |
| Reported as of 2026-07-01 | 72,753 | |
| Date | Type | What happened | Shares | Price | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Tax | Shares withheld for tax | −3,913 | $335.90 | $1.3M | |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Tax | Shares withheld for tax | −2,262 | $244.77 | $554K | |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Award | Grant or award | +34,832 | — | — | |
| Nov 10, 2025 | Award | Grant or award | +44,096 | — | — |
| Company | Role | Reported | Beneficial | % of class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDB MongoDB, Inc. This page | President & CEO | 72,753 2026-07-01 |
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| NOW ServiceNow, Inc. | President & COO | 47,145 2024-05-17 |
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| ZBRA ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORP | Director | 5,290 2022-05-12 |
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| MSCI MSCI Inc. | Director | 496 2024-05-01 |
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Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.
143 filings under CIK 0001661430 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗
10 recorded appearances
Argues data is the downstream winner of the AI cycle, and that hyperscaler capacity limits plus data-sovereignty rules are pushing workloads back on-premise. Walks through a bank's actual agentic architecture.
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On stage with OpenAI's Laura Modiano on the difference between how AI-native companies and large enterprises actually build on a data layer.
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Fireside with Harrison Chase on what large enterprises need from the data layer before agents reach production.
Watch or read →Post-print sit-down the morning after the April-quarter results, defending the growth strategy.
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Frames MongoDB as the default data platform for the agentic era, arguing unstructured data sits at the centre of every serious AI workload.
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Unscripted main-stage conversation with Harry Stebbings on AI and agents.
Watch or read →Full sit-down on the day the fiscal-2027 guidance sent the stock down sharply.
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His sharpest framing of the selloff: MongoDB is infrastructure software and should not be bucketed with the application-layer SaaS names AI is repricing. Says the quarter beat guidance on every metric.
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Responding to the roughly 20% drop and the fiscal-2027 outlook behind it.
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Recorded 65 days into the job: how he is repositioning MongoDB for the AI era and why unstructured data makes it a natural substrate.
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