• MongoDB Announces Leadership Transition Dev Ittycheria, President and Chief Executive Officer, shared the following message with MongoDB employees this morning. • This is the hardest email I have ever had to write to all of you. • If you have not seen theannouncement, I have decided to retire as CEO. • Effective November 10, 2025, Chirantan “CJ” Desai will become the new CEO of MongoDB. • This was not an easy decision for me. • The process to get to this point has been deeply emotional, as I care profoundly about MongoDB and the people who have made the company what it is today.

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  • MongoDB announced that President and CEO Dev Ittycheria will retire, effective November 10, 2025. The company named Chirantan “CJ” Desai as his successor. Desai, formerly President of Product and Engineering at Cloudflare and a key executive at ServiceNow, is praised for his experience scaling independent software firms from $1 billion to over $10 billion in revenue and for his growth‑at‑scale expertise. Ittycheria said the transition follows a succession‑planning process and that MongoDB is ready for a new leader to guide the company into its next phase, dubbed “MongoDB 3.0.” The announcement was delivered via an internal email to employees.

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