Siebel veteran Doug Laird has joined Couchbase as its Chief Marketing Officer. Laird will lead marketing world wide and is charged with establishing the company as the market leader for enterprise NoSQL. At Siebel Laird was Vice President of Marketing reporting to Pat House.
Prior to Couchbase Laird was at Wildfire, where he served as CMO for its social media marketing business through the company's acquisition by Google for a reported $400 million. Prior to that, Laird served as vice president of marketing at QlikTech. While Laird was at QlikTech the company increased annual revenue from $80 million to $321 million and had one of the best performing technology IPOs of the 2010.
"We are delighted to have Doug join our management team at this pivotal time," said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase.
Couchbase is a fast-growing provider of enterprise-class NoSQL databases. Global companies are driving this explosive market growth as they look for database technology that can support the scalability, reliability and high-performance requirements of highly interactive, mission-critical applications. Couchbase clients include Amadeus, AOL, Cisco, Concur, LinkedIn, Orbitz, Salesforce.com, Shuffle Master, and Zynga.
"The NoSQL market is evolving into two distinct segments -- small, grassroots developer-led projects, and business-critical applications that require massive scale," said Laird. "Market success is no longer defined by the number of downloads and LinkedIn skill counts, but by the ability to support mission critical applications. This presents a huge opportunity for Courchbase."
Couchbase is headquartered in Silicon Valley, and is funded by Accel Partners, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund, and North Bridge Venture Partners.
The company has a number of open positions listed around the globe on its jobs page in Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Training among other areas.
Laird can be reached at 650-417-7500.
