Shekhar Iyer is a global technology executive that has spent more than two decades of his career in enterprise software, primarily focused on big data and analytics. He has a broad range of international go-to-market experience across sales, marketing, solution engineering, business development partnerships, field enablement, professional services, and customer success. Prior to ArangoDB, he held executive roles at StreamSets, Couchbase, SAP, and Informatica, among others.

Claudius studied economics with business informatics as key aspect at the University of Cologne. Together with his co-founder, he builds databases for more than 20 years; from in-memory to mostly memory databases and from K/V stores over multi-dimensional cubes to graph databases. His responsibility was mostly the product and project management. Since 2022 he is the CPO of ArangoDB.

Frank studied in Aachen and London and obtained a PhD in mathematics. Prior to founding triAGENS GmbH, the company behind ArangoDB, he worked for several German tech companies as a consultant, team lead and C/C++ developer. Frank’s major achievements and projects relevant to ArangoDB are: development of a quota database that was faster than Reuters’, concept and implementation of JIT compilers for Intel and Sparc architectures, concept and implementation of a high-performance in-memory session database for Deutsche Post AG, development of an IDE for Dylan.

Jörg Schad is our CTO. In a previous life, he worked on Machine Learning Infrastructure in health care, distributed systems at Mesosphere, implemented distributed and in-memory databases, and conducted research in the Hadoop and Cloud area. He’s a frequent speaker at meetups, international conferences, and lecture halls.

Frank Swain is an accomplished go-to-market executive specializing in early-stage startups. He served as the first head of sales at Splunk, growing the company’s annual global bookings to $30 million in three years. He went on to do the same at AppDynamics, where he served as the SVP of Worldwide Sales. Most recently, Frank served as Instana’s CRO, which was acquired by IBM in December 2020. While there, Frank oversaw all pre-and post-sale revenue functions, ensuring all aspects of the organization scaled to meet Instana’s business objectives and align to revenue growth.

James Smith is an experienced, results-driven marketing executive with strong global experience. He has more than three decades of marketing experience, specializing in leadership, demand generation, branding, positioning, product marketing, online marketing, and omni-channel marketing campaigns. Prior to ArangoDB, James held senior marketing roles at Punchh, GoodData, OneLogin, Sitecore, Avaya, Electronic Arts, and Intel.