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Sergei Golubchik leads Server engineering at MariaDB Corporation. He started his career modifying open source MySQL code in 1998 and continued as a software engineer at MySQL AB, later Sun Microsystems. He brought his expertise to further the project by working on the MariaDB Server at Monty Program AB and MariaDB Corporation. During all these years, he has touched nearly every part of the Server. Features he has implemented include full-text search, XA, HANDLER, parallel repair and bulk inserts in MyISAM, pluggable authentication and related features, and feedback plugin. Sergei is a primary architect of the plugin API and an author of the “MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development” book. He also serves on the board of the MariaDB Foundation.

Sergei Golubchik

Alexey Vorovich is VP of engineering at [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) Corporation where he leads the development of SkySQL, [MariaDB](/org/mariadb)’s database-as-a-service (DBaaS). Prior to joining [MariaDB](/org/mariadb), he served as VP of engineering at [Information Builders](/org/information-builders), a BI and data integration provider. During that time, he managed the development of the core BI Server product, as well as of ETL and Data Preparation tools. He also managed the development of Server portable multi-platform architecture, and a continuing manufacturing process that allowed for the identical feature set to be delivered and maintained through multiple releases and on multiple OS platforms, from windows to linux to mainframes, and more recently, the cloud.

Alexey Vorovich

Gregory Dorman is VP of distributed systems and analytics at [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) Corporation. Prior to joining [MariaDB](/org/mariadb), Gregory served as SVP and general manager of iWay Software, a division of [Information Builders](/org/information-builders), a provider of data integration, data quality and data mastering tools and technologies. Previously, he worked for BusinessObjects as chief software architect and served as VP of engineering for Oracle Corporation, where he worked on developing and enhancing the analytical capabilities of the Oracle database; in particular, integrating OLAP and OLTP engines, as well as inventing and designing analytical extensions to SQL.

Gregory Dorman

Max Mether is a co-founder of [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) Corporation. He is currently head of server product management where he leads the development efforts on [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) Server and surrounding technologies. Prior to his current role, Max built the Professional Services team at [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) from the ground up. Max began his career consulting and training for companies such as MySQL and Sun Microsystems. He earned his Masters of Science (Eng) in physics and math from Helsinki University of Technology. A native of Finland, and by way of Paris, France, Max now resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Max Mether

Robbie Mihalyi brings over thirty years of core software development experience in building RDBMS products as well as building and deploying SaaS applications. Robbie served 10 years as the key engineer on the database engine at Sybase, later becoming the director of SQL Server. As engineering VP at Marketo and MarketLive, Robbie implemented agile processes and practices, significantly improving concept-to-market deployment. More recently, he was VP of engineering at Clustrix (acquired by [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) Corporation), bringing to market a highly scalable, commercial-grade distributed RDBMS product. He is now SVP of engineering at [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) Corporation overseeing technology development for analytics and distributed systems as well as [MariaDB](/org/mariadb)’s database-as-a-service (DBaaS), SkySQL.

Robbie Mihalyi

Venkat leads the SkySQL engineering team at MariaDB for its flagship multi-cloud DBaaS (database-as-a-service) offering. He has nearly two decades of experience leading globally distributed product development teams. Most of this time, he spent specializing in query federation across disparate sources and hybrid environments. Most recently, he helped bootstrap the engineering team at keebo.ai, an early seed stage “data learning” startup, taking the product from concept to a SaaS service acquiring high single digit customers within 8 months. Prior to that, Venkat spent a decade leading the engineering team for a “data virtualization” startup, Composite Software, through its acquisition by Cisco and subsequent divestiture to TIBCO. Before that, he held engineering management and software engineering positions at Actuate, Informix and Coromandel Software. Venkat has a Masters in Computer Science and an MBA from Santa Clara University. He is passionate about cloud database management, be it transactional, analytical or hybrid databases, and excited to be at the forefront of the disruption through open source software.

Venkateswaran Iyer

Alex Suh

Roya Shakoori is the Company’s General Counsel with over 17 years of legal experience. Roya has significant law firm restructuring experience and experience in-house working with Silicon Valley start-up technology/sustainability companies. Prior to joining MariaDB, Roya was General Counsel for a sustainability-focused/electrification company helping it through a significant growth phase, organically and through multiple acquisitions. Prior to that, Roya led the in-house legal efforts for ChargePoint, Inc. transitioning it from a private company to a public company through deSPAC. Roya resides in beautiful Silicon Valley, California.

Roya Shakoori

Stefan Schmit

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Hal Berenson currently serves as a board member for MariaDB Corporation. In his 50 years in the industry, Hal worked in many areas of commercial computing and is best known for leadership roles in the development of database technology, including Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Microsoft SQL Server, DEC (now Oracle) Rdb, and DEC DBMS-10/20. He was most recently a founder of autonomous development company Gaia Platform LLC. Prior to founding Gaia Platform, Hal was Vice President of Relational Database Services (RDS) at Amazon Web Services (AWS), a Distinguished Engineer and General Manager at Microsoft Corporation, and a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. Between stints at Microsoft, Hal co-founded and served as President of Cloud startup PredictableIT, LLC. During failed attempts to retire, Hal provides technology and management consulting through True Mountain Group, LLC.

Hal Berenson

Kelly Olson is a seasoned finance leader with over 25 years of experience in managing finance functions at software and media companies. Prior to joining MariaDB Corporation, Kelly built the finance and accounting team from the ground up at Workspot and led the teams through a period of tremendous growth. Kelly was also a key contributor for the successful acquisition of VersionOne during his tenure at CollabNet. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Azusa Pacific University.

Kelly Olson

Jon Bakke is the Chief Revenue Officer at [MariaDB](/org/mariadb). Jon has also served as the Executive Vice President at MarkLogic and the Senior Director at Oracle. Prior to that, they were a Software Developer at Sprint Nextel and a Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff at TASC.

Jon Bakke has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. Jon started their career as a software developer and has since held various management positions. Jon is an expert in database management, security, and virtual end-user computing.

At [MariaDB](/org/mariadb), Jon Bakke is responsible for growing the company's revenue. Jon oversees all sales, consulting, and sales engineering operations. Jon also works closely with MarkLogic University to ensure that customers and partners are successful using the MarkLogic Enterprise NoSQL Database.

 Jon Bakke is a highly effective leader with a proven track record of success in the tech industry. Jon is passionate about making their customers and partners successful.

Jon Bakke has a Masters from [East Carolina University](/org/east-carolina-university), a Bachelors from [St. Cloud State University](/org/st-cloud-state-university), and a HS Diploma in General from Osseo Senior High School.

Some individuals on their team include Bill Flynn - VP, Sales Americas, Magnus Stenberg - VP, Strategic Sales - EMEA, and Kurt Haberkamp - VP, Customer Success. Their manager is Michael Howard, CEO. They are on a team with Bill Munger - VP, Global HR, Manjot Singh - Field CTO, and Franz Aman - Chief Marketing Officer.

Jon Bakke

As Chief Accounting Officer, Will Sanchez is responsible for leading MariaDB Corporation’s global accounting function. Prior to joining MariaDB, Will completed an IPO with Applied Molecular Transport Inc. and participated in a reverse merger (SPAC) with Tobira Therapeutics, Inc. He has worked in both SaaS and biotechnology industries and has held senior positions at eGain Corporation, Electronic Arts Inc. and Johnson Controls, Inc. Will earned his B.S. Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Will Sanchez

Bill Munger is currently the VP of Global HR at [MariaDB](/org/mariadb). Prior to their current position, Bill served as the Global Head of People Operations at ChargePoint, Inc. from May 2017 to April 2021. Before that, they were the Vice President Human Resources at Del Grande Dealer Group from April 2012 to April 2017. Bill has also worked as the VP of HR & Chief of Staff at EnergyConnect and as an HR Manager at Intel Corporation and Safety-Kleen Corp.

Bill Munger's educational career includes completing a MBA from [Northwestern University](/org/northwestern-university) and a BS in Personnel Administration from [Western Illinois University](/org/western-illinois-university).

They work with Jags Ramnarayan - VP & GM, SkySQL, Christine Napoli - CFO, and Franz Aman - Chief Marketing Officer. Their manager is Michael Howard, CEO.

Bill Munger

Magnus Stenberg is the VP, Strategic Sales - EMEA at [MariaDB](/org/mariadb). Magnus has over 20 years of experience in sales and business development. 

Stenberg started their career in 1999 as the Director of Business Development at Nocom. Magnus then moved to Precise Biometrics AB in 2001 as their Sales Director. In 2003 they joined MySQL as their Sales Director and was responsible for sales in the Nordic, BeNeLux and Israel market. During their time at MySQL they were chosen as the number 1 sales manager worldwide for FY09. In 2008 they left MySQL to join Oracle as their Director Sales for Nordic, Benelux and Israel for MySQL. Magnus was with Oracle until 2011 when they left to join their current company [MariaDB](/org/mariadb). 

At [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) Stenberg is responsible for overseeing sales and business development in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Magnus Stenberg attended Fyrisskolan and Tunaberg.

Their manager is Jon Bakke, Chief Revenue Officer. They work with Mick Carney - VP, Sales - EMEA, Bill Flynn - VP, Sales Americas, and Jim Sears - VP, Global Alliances.

Magnus Stenberg

Manjot Singh is the Field CTO at [MariaDB](/org/mariadb). Manjot has over six years of experience in the database administration field. Prior to joining [MariaDB](/org/mariadb), Manjot worked as a Senior Database Administrator for [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](/org/hewlett-packard-enterprise) and then as a Database & Infrastructure Architect for [Percona](/org/percona). In their role as Field CTO, Manjot is responsible for providing technical leadership and direction for [MariaDB](/org/mariadb)’s products and services. Manjot is also responsible for consulting with clients on MySQL, [MariaDB](/org/mariadb), [Percona](/org/percona) Server and other related tools.



Their manager is Michael Howard, CEO. They are on a team with Jon Bakke - Chief Revenue Officer, Jags Ramnarayan - VP & GM, SkySQL, and Michael Monty Widenius - CTO.

Manjot Singh

Jürgen Ingels has served as one of our directors since May 2020. Mr. Ingels is the Founder and Managing Partner of SmartFin, a growth stage private equity fund that he founded in December 2014. In October 2014, Mr. Ingels sold Clear2Pay NV/S.A., a global payments software technology company he founded in 2000, to FIS Global. He is the organizer of one of the largest tech festivals in Europe (SuperNova) and founded several technology companies. Mr. Ingels started his career in private equity in 1997 at Dexia NV/S.A., where his role was focused on investing in technology companies. Mr. Ingels currently holds Board positions at several companies, including [Materialise](/org/materialise) (Nasdaq), WDP (Euronext, BEL20), Ghelamco, Guardsquare NV, Itiviti AB, UnifiedPost NV, and Willemen Groep. Mr. Ingels holds a Master of Science degree in Political and Social Sciences and an MBA from the University of Antwerp.



Jürgen Ingels

Jags has spent more than two decades leading distributed data products. First as a co-founder of VMWare GemFire (acquired by VMWare; now Apache Geode), where he helped architect and lead the direction of a first-of-its-kind distributed in-memory data grid for highly concurrent and low latency apps. Later within VMWare/Pivotal, he integrated the technology with the Spring framework, virtualization and CloudFoundry, growing its footprint to hundreds of customers. As part of the leadership team within Pivotal, he helped define the vision for a new unified data fabric – a unified clustered platform that brought stream processing, transactions and analytics together to eliminate the “Lambda architecture” complexity and deliver Google-like speeds for complex analytic queries. This became the foundation for SnappyData, where he was the co-founding CTO.  At SnappyData, he worked on hybrid translytical processing in distributed memory using techniques like vectorization and approximate query processing. The platform was acquired by [Tibco](/org/tibco-sas) in 2019 and integrated as a central data management tier between visualization (Spotfire), data science and federated data management. Most recently, he was at a [Fintech](/org/fintech) (a digital bank) company leading its global engineering team and experienced first-hand how cloud native modern apps are built with microservices and agility.

Jags Ramnarayan

Dave Turchin

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Laura Wang has over 20 years of experience in high tech B2B marketing working across many roles at companies such as Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, SAP Business Objects and [Informatica](/org/informatica). Across her rich career experience, she has developed a proven track record of bringing together the art and science of marketing; delivering impactful and relevant demand campaigns built on advanced digital platforms to produce industry-leading analytics. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Laura Wang

Christine Russell was appointed as a MariaDB board member in July 2022. She has been a financial executive in technology businesses in Silicon Valley for over 30 years with experience in both emerging and larger firms, public, venture and private equity-backed.

Christine is currently on the board of directors and chair of the audit committee at three publicly traded technology companies including AXT, Inc., eGain Corporation and QuickLogic Corporation, as well as several private companies including iCoin Technology and the Silicon Valley Directors’ Exchange. She was previously CFO at six publicly traded companies including PDF Solutions, UniPixel, Inc., Virage Logic Corporation, Ceva, Inc., Persistence Software Inc. and Valence Technologies, Inc. as well as two private equity-backed firms and four venture capital-backed companies. She completed successful IPOs for Persistence Software, an enterprise software company that was sold to Progress Software, and Valence Technology, a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium batteries.

She holds a bachelor’s degree and MBA from the University of Santa Clara.

Christine Russell

Saravana “SK” Krishnamurthy is a product management and technology leader with more than 25 years of leadership experience in big data, database and cloud industries. Currently, he is VP of product management at [MariaDB](/org/mariadb), overseeing the development of the company’s DBaaS SkySQL. Previously, he held senior management roles at BlueData Inc (acquired by HPE), Xplain.io (acquired by [Cloudera](/org/cloudera)), Pivotal/Greenplum where he launched the PivotalHD/HAWQ product line, [Cisco](/org/cisco), Sun Microsystems and SS8 Networks. He is a venture advisor at Draper Next (DNX.io VC firm) and lectures at [San Jose State University](/org/san-jose-state-university), teaching big data in business and entrepreneurship. SK has a dual MBA from Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley Haas Business School, and a master’s degree in computer engineering from [UC Santa Cruz](/org/uc-santa-cruz).

Saravana Sk Krishnamurthy

Mick Carney has a long track record in the database industry and currently leads [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) sales in EMEA. With a background as a programmer and database developer/administrator, Mick joined MySQL in 2003 and ran sales in France. When MySQL was acquired by Oracle, he had responsibility for field sales in Europe. Mick was part of the team that co-founded [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) Corporation and has worked in various roles since inception but did have a few years off for good behavior where he worked in NoSQL (Riak) and load balancers (HAProxy). Born in the UK, Mick attended university in Bordeaux and due to a weakness for fine wines and cheeses, has never achieved escape velocity from France since graduating in 1990. He lives in the Paris region with his American wife and their two culturally confused daughters.

Mick Carney

Michael joined [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) in January 2016. He brings decades of leadership in the enterprise software, data management and big data industries. Previously, Michael was CEO at C9, which he transformed into one of the leading predictive analytics companies in the CRM space and led through its acquisition by InsideSales. Michael also served as CMO at Greenplum (now Pivotal), the big data division of EMC. He was CEO at Ingrian Networks and OuterBay, and VP of the Internet Division at [Veritas](/org/veritas) and of Data Warehousing at Oracle, where he led the acquisitions of Thinking Machines, OneMeaning and Carleton Corporation. Michael has served on the boards of Acunu and [FireEye](/org/fireeye), and keynoted at a variety of conferences, including EMC World, Oracle OpenWorld, Green Data Center Conference, Data Science Series and many others. Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and Slavic languages and literature from the University of California, Berkeley and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Michael Howard

Abdul is an Investment Director, based in London, covering Western European transactions. His investment focus areas include Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and Mobility.

Before rejoining Intel Capital in 2015, Abdul served as Treasury Managing Director from 2006 where he sat on the Intel Capital investment committee and reviewed the quality and structure of deals across the region. He also held the position of Intel Assistant Treasurer from 2010 until 2015, leading the team executing fixed income investing, FX trading and cash management in EMEA. Abdul first joined Intel Capital in 1999, holding various positions including Investment Director for wireless investments.

Abdul’s investments include Cambridge Silicon Radio, Wirtualna Polska, DIGIA, Centrum.CZ, Epichem, what3words, ProGlove and Chronocam. He also worked on M&A transactions to acquire businesses for Intel in Denmark, Russia and Germany.

Before Intel, Abdul spent 7 years with PwC Corporate Finance, was a design engineer with Plessey Semiconductors and a robotics researcher with Ikerlán in Spain.

Abdul is a UK-qualified Chartered Accountant and holds an honours degree in Electronic Engineering.

Abdul Guefor

Jim Sears is the VP of Global Alliances at [MariaDB](/org/mariadb). Jim has over 17 years of experience in the software industry, and has been with [MariaDB](/org/mariadb) for over 6 years. Prior to joining [MariaDB](/org/mariadb), Jim was with Oracle for 11 years, where they were the Senior Director of WW Distribution & Americas VAR Recruitment. In this role, they managed teams responsible for software and hardware VAR sales through all of Oracle's global value added distributors, Latin America regional distributors, and a team responsible for strategic VAR recruitment in the US & Canada. Jim has also received the President's Club award for FY19.

Jim Sears attended the [University of Mississippi](/org/university-of-mississippi), where they studied history.

They work with Mick Carney - VP, Sales - EMEA, Bill Flynn - VP, Sales Americas, and Kurt Haberkamp - VP, Customer Success. Jim Sears reports to Jon Bakke, Chief Revenue Officer.

Jim Sears

Kurt Haberkamp offers two decades of leadership in database, open source and technical selling. Kurt is responsible for leading our global Customer Success Organization including functions in Support, Managed Services, Professional Services, and Training/Enablement. Previously Kurt led the Technical Field for Presales and Services in both The Americas and Asia. Previous experience includes time in various leadership and individual roles at Red Hat, Apptio, Oracle, and CME Group as well as other consumer facing companies. Kurt holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Sociology and Political Science from Lewis University and resides in the Chicago Metro area.

Kurt Haberkamp

Patrik Backman is Founder and General Partner at OpenOcean, an early stage venture capital investor focusing on Data Software in Europe. The company has successfully been part of scaling companies like TrueCaller, Supermetrics, Booksy, Bitrise, IQM, Loopme, and Nosto from very early stages to significant global software companies.

Patrik is a co-founder of MariaDB and worked actively in the company’s early years on business planning, product strategy, and fundraising. Earlier in his career, Patrik spent 6 years managing product and business development at MySQL AB before its exit to Sun Microsystems.

Patrik holds a Master of Science (Engineering) degree from Helsinki University of Technology and a Master of Science (Finance) from Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki.

Patrik Backman

Ben Li has been an investor of MariaDB since 2016 when he was an investment director at Alibaba and led M&A and technology investments for AliCloud. He has invested in many successful companies in the semiconductor, infrastructure software, big data and AI industries. Ben has a Master of Science of software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Ben Li

Todd Stoffel

Bill Flynn brings decades of field leadership in enterprise software, data management and analytics. At MariaDB Corporation, Bill previously led the Asia field organization before leading the Americas and opening up a business development center in Austin, TX. In the Americas, he is responsible for field sales, alliances, cloud channels, business development, operations and the end-to-end customer experience. Previously, Bill was head of global sales at C9 (acquired by InsideSales), one of the leading predictive analytics companies in the CRM space. Bill has held various field leadership roles both domestically and globally at [Informatica](/org/informatica), HP, Outerbay and iWay Software. Bill holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from St. Edward’s University and currently resides in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in Texas.

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