Chirantan "CJ" Desai

CEO

New York, New York, United States23 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To Switch

Key Highlights

  • Proven leader in enterprise-wide operations.
  • Extensive experience in product and engineering leadership.
  • Strong focus on customer success and innovation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS executive with extensive leadership in product and engineering.

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Specialties: Growth @ Scale and serving customers at the highest levels

Experience

23 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Mongodb

President & CEO, MongoDB

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Cloudflare

President, Product & Engineering

Oct 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

Servicenow

3 roles

President and Chief Operating Officer of ServiceNow

Jan 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Led ServiceNow's enterprise-wide operations including products, platform, design, AI research, engineering, cloud infrastructure operations and customer success to ensure business rigor from innovation to GTM execution.

Chief Operating Officer

Jan 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Chief Product & Engineering Officer

Dec 2016 – Jul 2024 · 7 yrs 7 mos

Stanford university

Guest Lecturer

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · STRAMGT 309 Course (Graduate School of Business), Econ 149 (Undergraduate) · On-site

Zebra technologies

Independent Board Director

Dec 2015 – May 2023 · 7 yrs 5 mos

  • Served on the Board for 7.5 Years including Compensation Committee. Zebra (NASDAQ: ZBRA) delivers rugged mobile computing, barcode scanning, and retail task management software.

Emc

President, Emerging Technologies Division

Sep 2013 – Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Worked with a great team of professionals to lead the Emerging Technologies Division (Engineering, Product Management, Product Marketing, Solution Sales] that comprised of hyper growing, disruptive, and market leading multi-B$ product lines.

Symantec

Executive Vice President [Information Management, Enterprise Security]

Jun 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Led multi-billion dollar product lines across security, storage, and backup.

Pivotal corporation

Vice President - Engineering and Product Management

Sep 2002 – Nov 2004 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Oracle corporation

Director - Engineering

Jun 1995 – Sep 2002 · 7 yrs 3 mos

  • Oracle Database, Oracle Applications, Oracle SaaS

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Masters — Computer Science

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

MBA

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