# Rowan Trollope (slim)

> Rowan Trollope is chief Executive Officer. Redis MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Chief Executive Officer.

Rowan 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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowant
- X: https://x.com/rowantrollope

## What Rowan builds

- [Redis MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redis-mcp.md), graded C, 55.8/100, in Databases & 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.

## Works with

- [Benjamin Renaud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/benjamin-renaud/), Chief Technology Officer
- [Jon Fritz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jon-fritz/), Chief Product Officer
- [Ofer Bengal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ofer-bengal/), Co-Founder & Chairman
- [Salvatore Sanfilippo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/salvatore-sanfilippo/), Creator of Redis; Redis evangelist since December 2024
- [Yiftach Shoolman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yiftach-shoolman/), Co-Founder & President

## Backed by

- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)
- [SoftBank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/softbank/)
- [TCV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tcv/)
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bain-capital-ventures/)
- [Francisco Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/francisco-partners/)
- [Goldman Sachs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/goldman-sachs/)
- [Viola](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/viola/)
- [Dell Technologies](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dell-technologies/)

## Questions

### Who is Rowan Trollope?

Rowan 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.

### What does Redis make?

Anchor Terminal lists Redis MCP from Redis.

### Who has invested in Redis?

The sources our research read name Tiger Global, SoftBank, TCV, Bain Capital Ventures, Francisco Partners, Goldman Sachs, Viola and Dell Technologies.

### How are Rowan's tools graded?

Redis MCP is graded C, 55.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://redis.io/
- https://redis.io/support/
- https://redis.io/company/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis_(company)

These 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.