MongoDB names Richard Scott head of Asia Pacific and Japan

Source: MongoDB.
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Richard Scott has joined MongoDB as Senior VP, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Based in Sydney, Scott will lead MongoDB's regional strategy as organisations move AI from pilot projects into production at scale.

MongoDB helps customers move AI into production by bringing real-time data, vector search, hybrid search and AI capabilities like Voyage AI embeddings and reranking together on one platform. This means enterprises and builders can speed up innovation, reduce complexity, and improve accuracy for their AI applications.

MongoDB's data platform is trusted by leading companies across the region—including LGU+, Cathay Pacific, Samsung, and Woolworths—as well as fast-growing and AI-native companies like Heidi, Zomato, Canva, Grab, and Emergent.

With thousands of customers and more than 1,200 employees in APJ, MongoDB is investing heavily throughout the region. In May the company opened a new office in Kuala Lumpur and will be opening a new Tokyo office in September, with increased investment in Japan in the coming months. Large engineering teams in India and Australia continue to expand, and in June MongoDB for Academia announced it will upskill 2 million developers in India by 2030 with vital data and AI skills.

Scott is a senior technology executive with more than 25 years of experience helping organisations transform. Prior to joining MongoDB, Scott was the Senior VP for APJ at Salesforce. He has also held senior leadership roles at Informatica, Microsoft, SAP and IBM.

“Richard joins at a pivotal moment. Our customers across the region—from Sydney to Seoul to Mumbai—are moving past experimenting with AI, and are looking to us to help them run AI in production,” said MongoDB Chief Revenue Officer Ryan Mac Ban.

“His 25 years building enterprise businesses in Asia Pacific, combined with his strategic vision and customer-first mindset, gives him the experience and credibility to accelerate that transition."

“Solving the data layer is going to be the defining technology question for organisations in the AI era,” said Scott.

“MongoDB is already loved by developers and trusted by market leaders but we are still only at the beginning of a massive shift in how technology is built and used. My focus is to align our partners, community, and regional teams, to help customers modernise and deploy AI applications with speed and confidence."