Executive Management

Paul O’Brien is CEO at MariaDB plc. He is a technology executive with broad operational expertise both launching and running startups as well as in venture capital and Fortune 500 firms, including most recently at NetApp, Semantec and EMC Corporation. He has extensive experience in a wide variety of high-technology, high-growth markets including storage infrastructure, security, and enterprise software.

Conor McCarthy has over 30 years of experience as a CFO in areas such as corporate strategy and corporate finance including capital raising. Conor most recently served as the CFO of Ideanomics, a NASDAQ listed cleantech company, where he developed the revenue models for vehicle-as-a-service and charging-as-a-service products. He was also CFO of OS33, a private equity backed FinTech SaaS platform for compliance and productivity enablement for the wealth management industry. Prior to that, he served as the CFO of Intent Media from May 2016 to July 2018, the CFO of Convergex Group from June 2014 to July 2015 and the CFO and Finance Director of the Americas for GFI Group, Inc., a NYSE listed fintech wholesale money broker with revenues of almost $1 billion (now part of BGC Partners, NASDAQ: BGCP), from March 2005 to June 2014. Conor holds a CA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. He started his career as an auditor with KPMG in Ireland before transitioning into financial services, working as CFO, treasurer, and in other executive finance roles, with trading and brokerage firms, as well as high growth technology companies supporting the SaaS industry.

Tom leads the field sales, inside sales, sales engineering, sales development, customer success, consulting, support and training teams globally at MariaDB plc. He has an impressive background as a sales and operations executive, coupled with extensive experience building and leading high-performance teams for both private and public SaaS companies. He was most recently CRO at Bringg, a SaaS delivery management platform. Prior to that, he was chief sales officer at Fuze, a cloud communications software company and VP of worldwide sales operations at PTC, a global software company. He has also held sales leadership positions at EMC and BMC Software. Siegel has successfully driven accelerated growth for SaaS companies through a combination of go-to-market strategy, sales leadership and adherence to key performance metrics, with demonstrated ARR growth from $50 million to $100 million.

Roya Shakoori is the Company’s General Counsel with over 17 years of legal experience. Roya has significant law firm restructuring experience and experience in-house working with Silicon Valley start-up technology/sustainability companies. Prior to joining MariaDB, Roya was General Counsel for a sustainability-focused/electrification company helping it through a significant growth phase, organically and through multiple acquisitions. Prior to that, Roya led the in-house legal efforts for ChargePoint, Inc. transitioning it from a private company to a public company through deSPAC. Roya resides in beautiful Silicon Valley, California.

Franz Aman is the CMO at MariaDB plc, and brings more than 25 years of experience in leadership and innovation across marketing, including global product marketing, product management, strategy, brand and communications. Franz holds a degree in geophysics from Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. He has held numerous executive positions within industry-leading technology companies, including Informatica, SAP, BusinessObjects, BEA Systems, SGI and Sun Microsystems.

Jonah is CTO at MariaDB plc. He is a long-time entrepreneur, open-source contributor, and member of several professional networks. Most recently, Jonah was Chief Technology Officer of The Meet Group, where he empowered a team of talented engineers to deliver a suite of consistently modern, stable, and performant social discovery mobile applications. Having successfully led organizations large and small, both public and private, Jonah has continually demonstrated an ability to provide influential guidance, management, and leadership skills to teams of all sizes. Jonah's approach to improving people, products, processes, and customer experiences is based around a proven, results-driven, combination of technology, data science, and psychology.