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Tessell, the enterprise Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform that gives organizations unified control across any database engine and any cloud, today announced two senior leadership appointments: Matt McDonough as President, Go-to-Market and Jeff Carter as Chief Strategy Officer. Modernizing legacy databases is time sensitive and business critical for enterprises and governmental organizations. Driven by AI transformation mandates, data center consolidation, cloud cost management, database licensing changes, and compliance, these initiatives have become urgent and critical investments.
McDonough spent nearly nine years at Couchbase, scaling from early-stage to approximately $275M ARR, guiding through IPO and subsequent acquisition.
Carter served as Vice President at AWS leading entire portfolio of Relational Databases, Non-Relational Databases, and Migration Services.
Prior to AWS, Carter spent nearly three decades at Teradata in senior engineering and platform leadership roles.
Tessell customers including CSX, Moody's, Forbes, and Citizens Bank report 25-50% reductions in total database cost of ownership.
Up to 10x faster database provisioning and up to 99.99% application availability.
Tessell recognized as Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Management and Peer Insights Strong Performer (2025 and 2026).
Matt McDonough joins Tessell after nearly nine years at Couchbase, where he was an early executive hire and scaled the company from early-stage revenue to approximately $275M ARR, guiding it through its IPO and subsequent acquisition. McDonough built the partner ecosystem, strategy and corporate development functions and spearheaded the product transformation that became the foundation of Couchbase's growth. At Tessell, McDonough will lead all go-to-market efforts globally, with a focus on expanding enterprise reach, deepening partner relationships and building the commercial infrastructure to take Tessell to its next stages of growth. He has spent his career building key company capabilities that help data and infrastructure companies scale to best serve their customers and partners. Tessell is the rare combination of a genuinely differentiated platform, proven customer outcomes, and a market that has reached the point where the urgency is real.
Jeff Carter joins Tessell with four decades of experience in enterprise data. Most recently, he served as Vice President at AWS, where he led the entire portfolio of Relational Databases, Non-Relational Databases, and Migration Services—overseeing platforms that power mission-critical workloads at planetary scale. Prior to AWS, Carter spent nearly three decades at Teradata in senior engineering and platform leadership roles. At Tessell, Carter will shape the company's long-term platform strategy and help enterprises navigate the increasingly complex database modernization landscape. Enterprises are sitting on decades of accumulated database complexity and they need a path forward that does not require them to break what is already working, and provides flexibility for multi-cloud implementations. That is exactly what Tessell delivers.
About Tessell
Tessell is the enterprise DBaaS platform that gives organizations unified control across any database engine and any cloud. Tessell's control plane, phased migration methodology, and built-in governance help enterprises migrate, manage, and modernize without disrupting what is already working. Fortune 500 companies, global banks, and government agencies - including CSX, Moody's, Citizens Bank and Forbes - trust Tessell to keep their most critical data running, reporting 25 to 50 percent reductions in total database cost of ownership. Tessell is recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Management and a Peer Insights Strong Performer in Cloud Database Management Systems (2025 and 2026).
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