Who is CJ Desai, Indian-origin MongoDB CEO poached by Zuckerberg?

short by Vaishnavi Mishra / 09:51 am on Tuesday, 29 September, 2026

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has poached MongoDB CEO Chirantan "CJ” Desai to lead Meta's new enterprise AI business. Born in India, Desai grew up in Bengaluru before moving to US with his family in 1993. He enrolled at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, earning a master's degree in computer science and MBA in 1995. He previously worked at ServiceNow and Cloudflare.