SAN FRANCISCO, CA – September 23, 2025 – Arango, the trusted data platform for enterprise-grade GenAI applications and solutions, today announced the appointment of Jakki Geiger as Chief Marketing Officer. A three-time CMO and veteran data and analytics leader, Geiger will lead global marketing as Arango builds on its multi-model database capabilities to give AI innovators and builders a trusted data foundation for building enterprise-grade GenAI applications, making it easier to extend today’s solutions with future-ready AI capabilities.
The Barriers to GenAI Project Success
Most enterprise GenAI applications and solutions never reach production. According to Fortune, citing an MIT study, 95% fail. The reasons are clear: fragmented data starves AI models of relationships, leading to answers you can’t trust. Legacy stacks collapse under enterprise-scale loads, stalling pilots before they scale. Spiraling GPU and infrastructure costs drain budgets and derail initiatives.
At the root of all these issues is fragmentation. Data is scattered across silos and formats, forcing developers to integrate multiple databases, pipelines, and technologies just to get started. Each piece brings its own complexity, brittleness, and cost. The result is a data infrastructure nightmare that creates a fragile foundation, undermines accuracy, blocks scalability, and makes ROI almost impossible.
Arango eliminates the complexity and costs of integrating fragmented tools and technologies with a trusted data foundation for the next wave of enterprise-grade GenAI applications – delivering accurate answers, limitless scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Leadership Perspective
“We’re thrilled to welcome Jakki to Arango at a pivotal moment,” said Shekhar Iyer, CEO of Arango. “Market demand for trusted GenAI data infrastructure has never been greater, and Jakki brings the experience of a growth CMO who knows how to meet it. She has a rare ability to build awareness, educate the market, and help organizations understand how to overcome the barriers standing in the way of enterprise-grade GenAI success: trust deficits, scalability bottlenecks, and high infrastructure costs. With Jakki’s leadership, Arango is well-positioned to guide enterprises and innovators as they move from pilots to production with confidence, and unlock what’s possible with GenAI.”
Why Jakki Joined
“I joined Arango because it’s rare to find a mission-driven team, breakthrough technology, and customers doing groundbreaking work, all aligned at the right moment,” said Jakki Geiger, CMO of Arango. “What excites me is how Arango solves the data infrastructure nightmare of building GenAI apps that hold companies back from delivering the ROI and business value. By providing the trusted data foundation for the next wave of enterprise-grade GenAI applications – delivering accurate answers, limitless scalability, and cost-efficiency in a single platform – Arango is a game changer for the future of enterprise AI.”
Jakki’s Background
Geiger has spent two decades shaping go-to-market strategies for data and analytics innovators. She has served as CMO for three B2B SaaS companies, Reltio, Pyramid Analytics, and Hazelcast, where she drove brand transformation, scaled pipeline contribution, and accelerated growth. Earlier, she spent almost 10 years at Informatica, where she held senior marketing and sales enablement leadership roles and played a pivotal role in the company’s transformation and go-to-market strategy, helping drive double-digit growth as the company prepared for re-IPO.
Key facts:
Company: Arango provides the trusted data foundation for the next wave of GenAI applications – delivering accurate answers, limitless scalability, and cost-efficiency. (Formerly named ArangoDB, creator of the much-loved ArangoDB multi-model database, is highly rated on G2, where customers consistently praise its performance, scalability, and ease of use.)
Vision: To help companies of all sizes build GenAI applications on a massively scalable data infrastructure defined by trust, scale, and cost-efficiency.
Funding: Backed by investors including Bow Capital, Target Partners, Iris Capital, New Forge, and ORIX USA’s Growth Capital, with $58+ million raised to date.
Technology: The Arango GenAI Data Platform enables developers to build enterprise-grade GenAI applications and solutions, eliminating the complexity and costs of integrating fragmented tools and technologies, in a single development environment. It delivers ready-to-use ingestion pipelines, BYO LLM integrations, MLOps, and agentic frameworks for building GraphRAG / HybridRAG and enterprise context management solutions. At its core is a massively scalable multi-model database – combining graph, vector, document, key-value, and search data, trusted by thousands of developers.
Customers: Thousands of developers at 200+ companies, including NVIDIA, HPE, London Stock Exchange, US Air Force, National Institutes of Health, Ministry de Defense France, Synopsys, and innovative GenAI startups like Articul8, trust Arango as their enterprise-grade GenAI data infrastructure powering critical applications, reaching billions of consumers.
