Leadership

Matt is a proven technology executive with deep experience in successfully leading global organizations through market transitions, driving operational excellence and accelerating growth. He currently serves as Chair, President and CEO of Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE), where his vision and leadership transformed the company, leading to its successful IPO in July 2021.

Prior to Couchbase, Matt was President of Worldwide Field Operations for Veritas Technologies, where he was responsible for global sales as well as customer success, channels, services, and support. Before that, he was Chief Product Officer for Veritas’ $2.5B business where he led strategy, product management, product marketing, engineering, support, hardware operations, and cloud delivery. Matt also previously held a variety of senior leadership positions at Symantec Corporation and Cisco Systems.

Matt holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Scott brings more than 20 years of experience in finance, operations, product management, and general management to Couchbase. As SVP of Product Management and Business Operations, he is responsible for driving Couchbase’s product and solution strategy, product roadmap, pricing strategy, competitive strategy, and documentation. Most recently he was SVP and GM of a $1.5B business at Veritas, where he spent 15 years in various positions. Prior to then, he spent eight years at Oracle serving in various finance and business operations roles. Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in Business and Finance from the University of the Pacific.

A chartered psychologist, Fidelma is the Chief People Officer at Couchbase. She is responsible for leading the People function, aligned with the company’s values and operating objectives. In this role, she leads all aspects of the People organization, including Business Partnering, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Workplace, Employee Experience & Engagement and HR Operations. She was most recently Vice President of the talent and organizational development team at Zendesk where she led its global organization development, engagement, and learning teams. Fidelma began her career with Accenture’s talent management consulting practice, specializing in large-scale technology and business model transformations, and later led the People function for fintech company Realex Payments. Fidelma holds a B.A. in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Occupational Psychology from Cardiff University.

As Chief Legal Officer, Margaret is responsible for scaling the global legal function and advising Couchbase in all aspects of its business. Margaret is a proven leader and seasoned advisor for software and SaaS companies. Most recently, she was Deputy General Counsel at Medallia where she guided the company from early start-up stage through a successful IPO. She led their transactions practice, supporting over $300 million in revenue, as well as the corporate, compliance and employment legal functions. Prior to Medallia, Margaret served as Associate General Counsel of Usablenet where she managed several critical practice areas including intellectual property, data privacy and litigation. Before her in-house roles, Margaret was a corporate attorney at Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP. Margaret also serves on the board of Anjiro Initiative, a 501(c)(3) organization. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology and Economics from the University of California at Berkley and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

As Senior Vice President of Engineering, Gopi is responsible for all product development and delivery at Couchbase. He came to Couchbase from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he served as General Manager of Analytics and Observability. During his tenure at AWS, he oversaw the development of numerous cloud-native databases, notably AWS Redshift and Aurora, and was a founding member of the AWS Glue service and Cloudwatch Observability initiatives. Previously, Gopi held senior technical leadership positions at IBM and Informix, leading their flagship database offerings. Gopi holds a Master of Science degree in Data Science and Machine Learning from UC Berkeley, and Bachelors in Computer Science from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India.

Greg is an established finance leader with more than 20 years of experience leading global growth and financial operations within the technology industry. As Chief Financial Officer at Couchbase, Greg is responsible for the overall financial governance and management of the company’s financial operations as well as management of worldwide IT and Facilities operations. Prior to Couchbase, Greg served as Senior Vice President of Finance at ServiceNow, where he led the enterprise cloud company’s financial development and was responsible for accounting, procurement, and treasury. And before ServiceNow, he held various senior executive financial positions at GE, culminating as CFO of the multi-billion dollar Healthcare IT unit. Greg is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.

John brings over 25 years of experience in technology marketing leadership to Couchbase and is responsible for the strategy and execution of all marketing activities. He’s a proven leader and builder of high-performance global marketing teams that deliver exceptional results with tight alignment to revenue objectives and corporate goals. Prior to joining Couchbase, John was the CMO at Docker. Before that, he led marketing activities at Hortonworks, Gluster, and Cloudera, and he held senior marketing positions at Red Hat, MarkLogic, and Business Objects. John holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

As CTO, Ravi is focused on driving deeper customer and partner relationships and evangelizing Couchbase in the market. . He came to Couchbase from Oracle, where he served as senior director of engineering and led innovation in the areas of recommender systems and social graph, search and analytics, and lightweight client frameworks. Also while at Oracle, Ravi was responsible for kickstarting the cloud collaboration platform. Previously in his career, Ravi held senior technical and management positions at BEA, Siebel, Informix, HP, and startup BroadBand Office. Ravi holds a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from University of Delhi.

Parlaying his experience in building emerging technologies as a product leader, Matt is responsible for Couchbase partner strategy and worldwide partner execution including channels, technology partners, solution partners, systems integrators, and cloud service providers. Prior to Couchbase, Matt was at EMC where he built out and led one of the flash storage offerings running product management, marketing, and solutions. And in a previous role at EMC, he led the company’s Emerging Technologies Division product and portfolio strategy. Before joining EMC, Matt was at Symantec/Veritas for seven years where he held positions across business development, alliances, strategy, marketing, and product management for both the security and information management businesses. Matt’s technology career is preceded by his service as a United States Army Officer. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy.

As chief revenue officer, Huw is responsible for driving strong growth, strategic global account planning, and sales operations. He previously served as a sales leader for Couchbase’s international business where he increased international ARR by nearly 200%. Huw has more than 20 years of experience across a range of operations, sales development and go-to-market leadership positions in large multi-national companies such as Veritas, Symantec and Lenovo, and hyper-growth start-ups such as Good Technology and Tanium. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business studies from the Leicester Business School, De Montfort University.