Kevin Ryan

Kevin Ryan, the former President and CEO of DoubleClick, co-founded 10gen with Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz, providing the critical commercial expertise, strategic vision, and venture capital relationships required to transform a complex technical prototype into a scalable, globally dominant software company.

Kevin Ryan is a legendary entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder of MongoDB, Inc., having served as the President and CEO of DoubleClick, where he led the company's explosive growth and eventual $3.1 billion acquisition by Google. Ryan's deep expertise in building and scaling internet businesses was instrumental in the founding of 10gen, providing the critical commercial strategy and operational discipline required to transform the technical vision of Merriman and Horowitz into a viable, market-leading company. Recognizing that the PaaS market was premature in 2007, Ryan played a key role in the strategic pivot to focus exclusively on the open-source MongoDB database, leveraging his extensive network in the venture capital community to secure the funding necessary to sustain the company through the early, pre-revenue years of open-source development. Ryan's leadership in MongoDB's early corporate strategy helped establish the company's developer-centric go-to-market motion and its commitment to the open-source community, laying the foundation for the massive, viral adoption that would eventually transform MongoDB into a multi-billion-dollar public company. Although he eventually transitioned to focus on his other entrepreneurial ventures, including AlleyCorp and Gilt Groupe, Ryan's foundational work on MongoDB's corporate strategy and early funding remains a vital part of the organization's history and long-term success.