MongoDB, Inc. MDB Chief Executive

What Chirantan "CJ" Desai says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Chirantan "CJ" Desai

Chirantan "CJ" Desai

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.

@cj_mongodb
What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
16/ 70
Level 1Steward

Desai owns about 0% of MongoDB, Inc., worth $25.4M at the last close.

SEC filings
143
Stake 72,753 reported shares ≈ 0.1% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 4/35
Founder Not assessed — whether they founded the company has not been researched Not assessed
Tenure No start date on record, so tenure scores nothing 0/10
Track record Not assessed — their prior companies have not been researched Not assessed
Direction No open-market buys or sales in the last year 5/15
Discipline 2 late Form 4s in 143 filings 7/10

Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 72,753 Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Jul 1, 2026
Paper trail 2 late filings Form 4 covering a 2023-02-15 grant or award in ServiceNow, Inc. was filed 2023-02-28, 8 business days later; Section 16 allows two.
Reported MongoDB, Inc. shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-07-01
020K40K60K80K 2026 Jul 2026: net −3,913 shares across 1 movement (largest: tax −3,913)Apr 2026: net −2,262 shares across 1 movement (largest: tax −2,262)Mar 2026: net +34,832 shares across 1 movement (largest: award +34,832)Nov 2025: 1 movement (largest: award +44,096) 72,753

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Common StockDirect72,753
Reported as of 2026-07-0172,753
Held directly
100%
Vehicles
None
Last filing
Jul 6, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 4 events folded from 4 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
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 — —
Every issuer Chirantan "CJ" Desai files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
MDB MongoDB, Inc. This page President & CEO 72,753
2026-07-01		 — —
NOW ServiceNow, Inc. President & COO 47,145
2024-05-17		 — —
ZBRA ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORP Director 5,290
2022-05-12		 — —
MSCI MSCI Inc. Director 496
2024-05-01		 — —

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.

Paper trail

143 filings under CIK 0001661430 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q2 FY2027 Sep 1, 2026 Desai used the call to argue that MongoDB now has two growth drivers instead of one, and that the second is not cannibalising the first. Revenue grew 30%, the fastest since fiscal 2024, and he put it down to a "run anywhere" thesis: Atlas held approximately 29% growth for a fifth straight quarter while self-managed Enterprise Advanced grew 36%, helped by search and vector search shipping into EA on June 30 — a feature set customers are charged extra for. His AI case is deliberately unglamorous: an agent needs live operational data rather than a stale warehouse copy, so the database already running a bank's customer-facing workloads is where the agent gets built. The evidence he offered was concrete — a frontier lab that moved its chat memory off PostgreSQL onto Atlas in four weeks and now reads 10x faster, the Financial Times serving over 100,000 daily queries on Voyage models, a record 2,900 net new customers, and Voyage customer counts roughly doubling for a second consecutive quarter, mostly companies with no prior MongoDB relationship who he said were referred chiefly by Claude and Codex. The claims to hold him to: that the Enterprise Advanced revival is customer-driven and durable rather than a multi-year-deal timing artefact, and that guiding Q3 to roughly 20-21% growth is prudence about holiday consumption rather than the underlying trend. Read the call · 9 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

10 recorded appearances

2026

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