Couchbase’s Leadership

Matt is a proven technology executive with deep experience in successfully leading global organizations through market transitions, driving operational excellence and accelerating growth. He currently serves as Chair, President and CEO of Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE), where his vision and leadership transformed the company, leading to its successful IPO in July 2021.

Prior to Couchbase, Matt was President of Worldwide Field Operations for Veritas Technologies, where he was responsible for global sales as well as customer success, channels, services, and support. Before that, he was Chief Product Officer for Veritas’ $2.5B business where he led strategy, product management, product marketing, engineering, support, hardware operations, and cloud delivery.

Matt also previously held a variety of senior leadership positions at Symantec Corporation and Cisco Systems.Matt holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Alvina Antar is the Chief Information Officer at Okta, the leading independent identity provider. She leads a Business Technology organization focused on accelerating Okta’s success through trusted and innovative delivery of process, technology and data solutions. Prior to Okta, she spent six years as Zuora’s first ever CIO enabling business growth from $30M to $300M in revenue including a successful IPO in 2018. Alvina previously spent 17 years at Dell focused on Digital Transformation, Global Delivery, and M&A. Alvina co-founded the Silicon Valley CIO Women’s Network bringing together Bay Area’s leading CIOs to share diverse perspectives, challenges, and experiences in a supportive atmosphere. She is a member of Girls in Tech’s Board of Directors, a global nonprofit dedicated to erasing the gender gap in tech. Alvina is also on the advisory board of BUILD, a nonprofit dedicated to igniting the potential of our youth in under-resourced communities through entrepreneurship. Alvina holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and lives in Menlo Park, California with her husband and three children.

Ed Anderson is the founder of North Bridge Venture Partners and North Bridge Growth Equity. He raised nearly $4 billion in capital for those partnerships. For the past 35 years, Ed has provided financing and advised entrepreneurs focused on building game changing companies. He was a pioneer in the strategy of seed investing for high tech companies and has produced industry-leading returns for investors. Ed is a graduate of the University of Denver and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He serves on the boards of many private companies and has numerous philanthropic interests outside of North Bridge.

Carol Carpenter is the Chief Marketing Officer of Unity and brings more than 25 years of technology sector experience. Previously at VMware, she was responsible for leading all aspects of VMware’s Global Marketing organization. Carol was Vice President of Product Marketing at Google Cloud, CEO of ElasticBox (acquired by CenturyLink), and held leadership and marketing roles in technology at Trend Micro, Keynote Systems, Apple, and more. Carol loves building and scaling new products and is particularly proud of the high-performance teams she’s developed. She continues to mentor women and students via the HBS women entrepreneurship program, the Stanford alumni network, and Monte Jade. Carol holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Lynn Christensen is the former Senior Vice President of Products for Workday. She has more than 30 years of experience building and leading world-class technology teams and instilling a culture of innovation. Her background in business intelligence and analytics helps companies make better decisions and lets customers gain deeper insights into their employees and customers. As a senior executive with experience across a variety of industries, Lynn’s ability to understand both technology and business issues brings a well-rounded perspective to companies looking to transform the market. Lynn holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University.

Kevin Efrusy joined Accel in 2003 and focuses on software and consumer investments. Kevin was the lead investor in a number of pioneering companies including Facebook (which he sourced for Accel in 2005), Groupon (public), Couchbase, SpringSource (acquired by VMware), BBN Technologies (acquired by Raytheon), CAN Capital, and MemSQL. He also leads the firm’s Latin America initiatives, resulting in investments in Despegar, Mind Lab, Baby.com.br, and Elo7. Prior to Accel, Kevin founded Corio, a software-as-a-service pioneer that went public and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later, he built and served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment with annual gross sales of more than $500 million. Kevin is from the Chicago area and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and MBA from Stanford.

Jeff Epstein is an Operating Partner in the Silicon Valley office where he leads Bessemer’s CFO Council and helps portfolio company CEOs and CFOs share best practices.

He is the former Executive Vice President and chief financial officer of Oracle, one of the world’s largest and most profitable technology companies, with a market value of over $200 billion. Prior to joining Oracle, Jeff served as the chief financial officer at several public and private companies, including DoubleClick (acquired by Google), King World Productions (acquired by CBS), and Nielsen’s Media Measurement and Information Group. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker at The First Boston Corporation. He specializes in B2B software, marketplaces, and artificial intelligence software.

Jeff co-teaches the Lean Launchpad class at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Engineering and the CFO Leadership class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves on the boards of directors of AvePoint, Couchbase, Kaiser Permanente, Okta, and Twilio. Jeff served on the Board of Directors of Booking Holdings/Priceline for 16 years as its market value grew from $1 billion to $80 billion.

He holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree from Yale College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Alex Migon is a Partner of GPI Capital, a New York-based investment firm specializing in non-control investments with category-leading businesses across consumer and technology end markets. Alex brings 20 years of investment management, governance, and capital markets experience to the board, as well as product-level insights acquired through more than two decades of personal involvement in software development. Alex holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto and is a CFA charterholder.

David Scott brings more than 40 years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure to the Couchbase board. From 2001 to 2010, David served as President and Chief Executive Officer of 3PAR, Inc., a data storage company that created and defined the market for utility storage designed for service provider IT models. While President and CEO of 3PAR, David oversaw the company’s evolution from a venture backed private company to being publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2007, then finally through its acquisition by HP in 2010 for $2.4 billion. David spent the next five years as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the global HP Storage business before focusing on board work. He has previously served on the boards of Veritas, AppDynamics, and OverOps. He currently chairs the Compensation Committee at Couchbase, and is a Board Director at Cloudian, Token, M10 Networks, Nebulon, and AntemetA.

Rick Simonson is the Managing Partner of Specie Mesa L.L.C. where he serves as advisor, investor, and independent board member for portfolio companies of select private equity and venture capital firms. His expertise and focus is on portfolio companies in the technology space that are near to mid-term to an IPO or sale. Currently, Rick is on the board of directors of Electronic Arts (EA), Evercommerce (EVCM), and Cast & Crew in addition to Couchbase. For Evercommerce he wears multiple hats as investor, lead independent director, and chair of the audit committee. At Electronic Arts he currently serves on the audit committee, which he chaired from 2015-2023. He previously served as lead director from 2009-2015. At Cast & Crew, Rick is an investor and serves as chair of the audit committee. Rick also advises select private and public companies in non-board roles. At this time he works with EQT, Redwood Capital Partners, and WestWave Capital. Rick retired as EVP & CFO of Sabre Corporation in July 2018. Before joining Sabre, Rick served as CFO and President of business operations at Rearden Commerce, a venture-backed travel technology company. From 2001 to 2010 he was EVP of Nokia Corporation, including six years as CFO.