Chirantan "CJ" Desai
Chirantan "CJ" Desai is the President and Chief Executive Officer of MongoDB, a position he assumed in November 2025. He brings over 25 years of experience leading product and engineering organizations at companies including Cloudflare, ServiceNow, EMC, Symantec, and Oracle. He is best known for scaling enterprise software businesses, having helped grow ServiceNow's revenue from $1.5 billion to over $10 billion during his tenure as President and Chief Operating Officer. He holds a Master's in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
“CJ runs on a cadence of speaking to 10 to 12 customers a week, and in this conversation he brings that view straight from frontier labs, AI-native startups, and Global 2000 enterprises.”
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