Dwight Merriman (born August 5, 1968) is an American Internet executive, racing driver, and entrepreneur in New York City's

Silicon Alley Silicon Alley is an area of high tech companies centered around southern Manhattan's Flatiron district in New York City. The term was coined in the 1990s during the dot-com boom, alluding to California's Silicon Valley tech center. The term h ...

. Best known for co-founding

DoubleClick DoubleClick Inc. was an American advertisement company that developed and provided Internet ad serving services from 1995 until its acquisition by Google in March 2008. DoubleClick offered technology products and services that were sold primaril ...

with Kevin O'Connor and serving as its CTO for 10 years, Merriman currently serves on the Board of Directors of MongoDB Inc., where he was previously cofounder and chairman.

Business career

DoubleClick was sold in 2005 for $1.1 billion to Hellman and Friedman LLC, and Merriman stepped down as CTO shortly thereafter. DoubleClick was acquired by

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for $3.1 billion in March 2008. After leaving DoubleClick, Merriman, along with former DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan, founded AlleyCorp, a network of affiliated Internet companies, including MongoDB Inc., ShopWiki,

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, and

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Racing career

Merriman began his racing career in 2018, driving a Volkswagen Golf for Heinlein Racing Development in the Pirelli World Challenge. He ended 9th overall at the end of the season. Two years later, in 2020, Merriman made his debut in the

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for Era Motorsport alongside drivers Kyle Tilley, Ryan Lewis, and Nicolas Minassian. They finished 4th in their class, 11th overall. In 2021, he returned with Era Motorsport to the 24 Hours of Daytona alongside Tilley, Ryan Dalziel, and Paul-Loup Chatin. The group recorded 787 laps, winning their class.

Racing record

Career summary

* Season still in progress.

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

( key)(Races in bold indicate pole position. Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest race lap in class. Results are overall/class) * Season still in progress

Complete Asian Le Mans Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

24 Hours of Daytona results

References

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