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Jessica Laughlin

Jessica Laughlin

Head of Product

Jessica joined Materialize as the fifth engineer, coming from Goldman Sachs and Bluecore. She leads the product organization, focused on shipping features that make Materialize users successful in production.

Charles Horner

Charles Horner

VP Finance and Operations

Charles joined Materialize in 2021 to build out finance and operations. He is now VP Finance and Operations. Previously, he was an investor at RRE Ventures working with hundreds of start-ups at varying stages of development and an investment banker at Goldman Sachs working on transactions in the Technology, Media and Telecom sectors. Charles has a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

Nikhil Benesch

Nikhil Benesch

CTO

Nikhil is the Chief Technology Officer at Materialize. He previously worked on the replication engine for CockroachDB. He has an A.B. in Computer Science from Harvard, where he did research on streaming dataflow systems.

Frank McSherry

Frank McSherry

Chief Scientist

Frank was previously at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley where he co-invented Differential Privacy, and subsequently led the Naiad project. Frank holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Arjun Narayan

Arjun Narayan

Co-Founder & Board Member

Arjun cofounded Materialize, coming from database-building experience as an early engineer at Cockroach Labs and through his Ph.D in distributed systems, security, privacy and scalability from the University of Pennsylvania.

Emily Black

Emily Black

Director of Marketing

Emily joined Materialize in 2024, she brings a proven track record in demand generation, campaign strategy, and marketing leadership, with experience driving impactful growth at companies like Starburst and through her creative leadership at Marblehead Little Theatre.

Matt Mhor

Matt Mhor

Director of Sales

Matt joined Materialize in 2023 as part of the founding sales team, he is now leading the sales organization as Director of Sales. He has spent over a decade in various sales roles for high growth startups including most recently leading the North America commercial sales team at Dremio and part of the pre-IPO sales team at Elastic.

Nate Stewart

Nate Stewart

CEO

Nate comes to Materialize after 7 years leading the product organization and 4 years serving on the board at Cockroach Labs. While at Cockroach, Nate had previously worked with Materialize co-founders Arjun Narayan and Nikhil Benesch. Previously, Nate was in product roles at Percolate and Microsoft. He has an MBA from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Seth Wiesman

Seth Wiesman

Director of Field Engineering

Seth Wiesman joined Materialize in 2021 as Director of Field Engineering, focusing on helping users solve their most challenging operational data needs. As a long-time contributor and committer to Apache Flink, Seth brings over a decade of experience in data and streaming technologies, including work on some of the world's largest and most complex data projects.

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Mature Technology, Long-Term Vision

2013

Naiad: A Timely Dataflow System Paper published

2015

Timely Dataflow in Rust

Jan 2019

Company Founded

Feb 2019

Series A

Feb 2020

First Public Release

November 2020

Series B

Sep 2021

Series C

Oct 2022

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