FAUNA - Key Persons


Aaron Schildkrout

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Investor, Addition ( Board Observer )

Bob Muglia - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board

Cheryl Dalrymple

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • CFO, Confluent ( Independent )

Crystal Huang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Investor, GV ( Board Observer )

Eric Berg - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Eric has 25+ years of experience growing multiple software and SaaS businesses. Previously he was the Chief Product Officer at Okta which he helped scale from inception to post IPO. He has also held leadership roles at Apptio, Microsoft, and Intel.

Hassen Karaa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • VP Product & Community
Hassen was formerly a Vice President at Okta where he spent 7 years in the product management function. He helped grow Okta from a startup with $5M of revenue to a public company with $700M in revenue and 6500 customers. Prior to that, he held product roles at Microsoft.

John Novak - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • VP Marketing
John comes from Hiya, where he was CMO and instrumental in scaling the Series B company to 200M MAUs and north of $30M in revenue. Prior to that he led product marketing at Apptio and helped grow the business there through a 2016 IPO and later acquisition by Vista Equity Partners for $2B in 2018.

Matt Freels - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Architect
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Matt is a co-founder at Fauna. He was formerly the technical lead of Twitter's database team. Previously, he worked at a gaming company acquired by Zynga. He works with Fauna's product and engineering teams to deliver on our technical vision.

S. Somasegar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Tyson Trautmann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • VP Engineering
Tyson was formerly the General Manager for AWS CodePipeline and CodeDeploy. He has 15+ years of experience building tools to develop, deploy, and operate large-scale distributed systems in both cloud and hybrid environments. He has held engineering leadership roles at Amazon, Microsoft, and Riot Games.