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  "markdown": "Chief Executive Officer.\n\nRowan Trollope became chief executive of Redis in February 2023, after four and a half years as CEO of Five9. Before that he was senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Applications Group, and he built Symantec's SaaS strategy as group president of sales, marketing and product development.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowant\n- X: https://x.com/rowantrollope\n\n## What Rowan builds\n\n- [Redis MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redis-mcp.md), graded C, 55.8/100, in Databases \u0026 files. Redis's open-source MCP server for Redis databases. The owner runs it locally over stdio, and it gives agents tools for strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, pub/sub, JSON documents and vector search. Chief Executive Officer, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Benjamin Renaud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/benjamin-renaud/), Chief Technology Officer\n- [Jon Fritz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jon-fritz/), Chief Product Officer\n- [Ofer Bengal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ofer-bengal/), Co-Founder \u0026 Chairman\n- [Salvatore Sanfilippo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/salvatore-sanfilippo/), Creator of Redis; Redis evangelist since December 2024\n- [Yiftach Shoolman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yiftach-shoolman/), Co-Founder \u0026 President\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)\n- [SoftBank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/softbank/)\n- [TCV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tcv/)\n- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bain-capital-ventures/)\n- [Francisco Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/francisco-partners/)\n- [Goldman Sachs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/goldman-sachs/)\n- [Viola](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/viola/)\n- [Dell Technologies](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dell-technologies/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Rowan Trollope?\n\nRowan Trollope became chief executive of Redis in February 2023, after four and a half years as CEO of Five9. Before that he was senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Applications Group, and he built Symantec's SaaS strategy as group president of sales, marketing and product development.\n\n### What does Redis make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Redis MCP from Redis. Redis's open-source MCP server for Redis databases. The owner runs it locally over stdio, and it gives agents tools for strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, pub/sub, JSON documents and vector search.\n\n### Who has invested in Redis?\n\nThe sources our research read name Tiger Global, SoftBank, TCV, Bain Capital Ventures, Francisco Partners, Goldman Sachs, Viola and Dell Technologies.\n\n### How are Rowan's tools graded?\n\nRedis MCP is graded C, 55.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://redis.io/\n- https://redis.io/support/\n- https://redis.io/company/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis_(company)\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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