Couchbase Appoints Tim Finley as Senior Vice President of AI

Couchbase announced the appointment of Tim Finley as Senior Vice President of AI on May 5, 2026, bringing in a former AWS executive to lead the company's AI product strategy and internal AI transformation as demand for enterprise AI infrastructure accelerates.

According to the press release, Finley spent more than five years at AWS, where he began by leading worldwide go-to-market and strategy for its multi-billion dollar database services portfolio.

His remit later expanded to include the fully combined data and AI services portfolio before his departure. Prior to AWS, he held executive roles in Sales and Business Development at Oracle and led technology organizations for global manufacturing companies.

At Couchbase, Finley will drive AI product strategy and roadmap while leading the company's internal AI transformation, positioning the platform as the operational data foundation for agentic AI workloads running at the edge, on devices, in stores, and inside core enterprise applications.