Founder Profile
Kevin Ryan
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Kevin Ryan?
Kevin Ryan is a founder of MongoDB, Inc., which was founded in 2007 with Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz.
- Company founded
- MongoDB, Inc.
- Founded
- 2007
- Co-founders
- Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz
Background
Former CEO of DoubleClick and a serial New York founder through his AlleyCorp firm.
Founding Story
Kevin Ryan co-founded 10gen in 2007 alongside Merriman and Horowitz, contributing business leadership and early company-building experience. He has co-founded several other New York companies, including Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, and Zola.
Education: Yale University; INSEAD; Trumbull College.
Kevin P. Ryan was an executive at DoubleClick from 1996 to 2005. He co-founded the venture firm AlleyCorp in 2008, through which he also started Gilt Groupe and Business Insider. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).