Tom Killalea has served as a member of MongoDB's board of directors since December 2015 and as chairperson since July 2019. Formerly at Amazon for 16 years, he was Amazon's first Chief Information Security Officer, led the infrastructure and distributed systems team, and led the Kindle Content Ecosystem. He currently serves on the boards of Akamai Technologies, Capital One Financial Corp., and Satellogic, and previously was a director of Carbon Black and Xoom Corporation.