Founder Profile
Dwight Merriman
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Dwight Merriman?
Dwight Merriman is a founder of MongoDB, Inc., which was founded in 2007 with Eliot Horowitz and Kevin Ryan.
- Company founded
- MongoDB, Inc.
- Founded
- 2007
- Co-founders
- Eliot Horowitz and Kevin Ryan
Background
Co-founder and former CTO of DoubleClick, where he helped build ad-serving systems at very high volume.
Founding Story
Dwight Merriman co-founded 10gen (now MongoDB) in 2007 after scaling problems with relational databases at DoubleClick shaped his view of how application data should be stored. He served as MongoDB's early CEO and later chairman, and also co-founded Business Insider and Gilt Groupe with Kevin Ryan.
Dwight Merriman was born in 1968 in New York City. Education: Miami University.
Merriman was born on August 5, 1968. He co-founded DoubleClick with Kevin O'Connor and was its chief technology officer for 10 years. He was previously chairman of MongoDB and sits on its board.