Dwight Merriman

Dwight Merriman is a New York City-based technology executive and serial entrepreneur currently serving as a Board of Directors Member at MongoDB. He previously co-founded the advertising technology pioneer DoubleClick in 1996, operating as Chief Technology Officer for a decade before the company was ultimately acquired by Google for $3.1 billion in 2008. Following this exit, Merriman partnered with former DoubleClick executive Kevin Ryan to establish AlleyCorp, an early-stage incubator network that launched multiple successful consumer and enterprise technology startups across the region. In 2007, he co-founded the NoSQL database platform MongoDB, acting as Chief Executive Officer until 2013 and guiding the enterprise to a 2017 initial public offering and a subsequent market capitalization exceeding $22 billion. His professional background centers on engineering scalable technology infrastructure, advancing open-source developer platforms, and incubating high-growth enterprise software companies.