Chirantan Desai Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Chirantan Jitendra Desai
Nickname	CJ
Profession	Software professional
Famous Role	Becoming Meta Enterprise Platform head in 2026
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Personal Life
Date of Birth	Year, 1971
Age (as of 2026)	55 Years
Birthplace	India
Nationality	American
College/University	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Educational Qualification	Master’s degree in computer science and an MBA
Social Media	• Facebook • LinkedIn
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Family
Wife/Spouse	Hina Desai
Children	Son- Aarav Desai Daughter- Meera Desai
Parents	Father- Jitendra Desai
Siblings	Brother- Utpal Desai

Some Lesser Known Facts About Chirantan Desai

• Chirantan Desai, known as CJ, was born in India and later moved to the US, where he spent much of his career in the technology industry.

• He studied at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and earned a master’s degree in computer science and an MBA.

• The university gave him its Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award in 2024.

• Desai began his career at Oracle in June 1995 and stayed until September 2002.

• He worked as Director of Engineering on Oracle Database, Oracle Applications and Oracle SaaS, and he was a key member of the team that launched Oracle’s first cloud service.

• In September 2002, Desai joined Pivotal Corporation as Vice President of Engineering and Product Management.

• He spent over two years there. In November 2004, Desai moved to Symantec, where he held several product leadership roles until September 2013.

• He first served as Senior Vice President of Endpoint and Mobile Security. From June 2012, he worked as Executive Vice President of Information Management and Enterprise Security.

• In that role, he led product lines worth several billion dollars across security, storage and backup.

• Desai joined EMC in September 2013 as President of the Emerging Technologies Division. He had full responsibility for profit and loss, and he focused on launching and growing new businesses.

• The division covered engineering, product management, product marketing and solution sales.

• In December 2015, Desai joined the board of Zebra Technologies as an independent director. He sat on the compensation committee and served 7.5 years, until May 2023.

• Zebra supplies rugged mobile computing, barcode scanning and retail task management software.

• In December 2016, Desai joined ServiceNow as Chief Product and Engineering Officer.

• He became Chief Operating Officer in January 2022 and President and Chief Operating Officer in January 2023. He left in July 2024.

• In these roles, he oversaw the platform, products, design, AI research, engineering, cloud infrastructure and customer success.

• He also led company wide operations, so that business discipline carried from innovation to execution.

• According to MongoDB, ServiceNow grew its annualised revenue from 1.5 billion dollars to more than 10 billion dollars during his tenure.

• In March 2022, Desai started working as a guest lecturer at Stanford University.

• He teaches the STRAMGT 309 course at the Graduate School of Business and the Econ 149 course for undergraduates.

• Desai joined Cloudflare in October 2024 as President of Product and Engineering. He stayed there until November 2025, when he became President and CEO of MongoDB, succeeding Dev Ittycheria.

• He also served on the MongoDB board of directors. His stay at the company lasted less than a year.

• On 28 September 2026, MongoDB announced that Desai had stepped down with immediate effect to join Meta.

• Ittycheria has returned as interim President and CEO, and the company has started a search for a permanent successor.

• Meta appointed Desai as its Chief Enterprise Platform Officer on 28 September, along with the launch of Meta Enterprise Platform.

• He will report directly to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and lead the new business. He brings over 25 years of experience in enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI.

• Zuckerberg said Desai has a track record of building full stack software and delivering results in AI, infrastructure, business applications and security.

• Desai said the goal is to make Meta the place enterprises come to scale their businesses.