451 Research forecasts the Total Data market will reach $132.3 billion over the next five years. This growth is driven by massive enterprise investment in data management solutions that can reliably deliver the performance required by today’s real-time SaaS, cloud, and on-premise applications. With its experienced leadership team, open source product strength, and 12 million strong community, MariaDB is uniquely positioned to capitalize on this opportunity. Bodamer brings impressive database experience to MariaDB. He contributed to the first distributed and interoperability features of the Oracle database kernel, which gave him early experience solving tough technical challenges associated with distributed query optimization and transaction performance. After Oracle, Bodamer was an executive at various startups and Silicon Valley stalwarts. He served as COO and SVP of product operations and engineering at Apple's PowerSchool division, helped transition 10gen into MongoDB, and most recently co-founded Analytica and Upthere. Bodamer holds several patents for database and middleware technology.
Lochead has spent the past two decades defining new categories and building successful marketing programs for emerging technology providers. Most recently she led the marketing team at Couchbase that contributed to doubling year over year growth, tripling share of voice and establishing the company as a leader in the NoSQL space. Lochead also has led marketing teams at Oracle, Intuit, and Virsa (acquired by SAP) and had a consulting firm that helped early-stage startups define and build marketing programs.
Bodamer’s and Lochead’s hires add to MariaDB’s rapid expansion in 2016. In January, the company hired MariaDB and MySQL creator Michael “Monty” Widenius as CTO and former EMC executive Michael Howard as CEO. Howard previously served as CEO of predictive analytics firm C9 (acquired by InsideSales.com) and was CMO of Greenplum, the Big Data division of EMC. MariaDB also closed $12 million in series B funding in the first half of 2016.
