# Mehdi Daoudi

> Mehdi Daoudi co-founded Catchpoint in 2008 after more than a decade working on service quality and monitoring at DoubleClick and Google. CEO when LogicMonitor acquired Catchpoint in December 2025 and subsequently identified as its general manager, he advocates measuring Internet performance from the user’s perspective. Based in Los Angeles, he combines a practitioner’s interest in reliability with an emphasis on transparency, teamwork and learning from mistakes.

- **Role:** General Manager, Catchpoint at LogicMonitor; Co-founder of Catchpoint
- **Organizations:** Catchpoint, LogicMonitor, DoubleClick, Google, YPO, 10XCEO
- **Education:** BS in international trade, marketing, and business (self-reported in a 2025 interview), Institut Supérieur de Gestion, France
- **Known for:** Co-founded Catchpoint in 2008 and led it as CEO through its December 2025 acquisition by LogicMonitor., Helped establish DoubleClick’s quality-of-service and service-level management practices., Built Catchpoint with a team that reached 100 customers in 2013 and a global monitoring network reported at 2,459 vantage points in September 2023.

## Career timeline

- **1992** — Encountered the Internet while studying in Paris, according to his 2022 interview.
- **1997-2008** — Worked at DoubleClick, including sales engineering, quality of service and R&D; subsequently worked at Google after its acquisition of DoubleClick.
- **1999** — Recalled accidentally disrupting DoubleClick ad serving while deleting a pixel file.
- **2008** — Co-founded Catchpoint with Dritan Suljoti, J. Scotte Barkan and Veronica Ellis; early planning took place in his Los Angeles garage.
- **2013** — Catchpoint reached its first 100 customers.
- **2023** — Catchpoint’s fifteenth-anniversary account reported 2,459 global monitoring vantage points.
- **2025** — CEO and co-founder when LogicMonitor completed its acquisition of Catchpoint on December 2.
- **2026** — Identified as GM of Catchpoint at LogicMonitor in his January Forbes byline and the 2026 SRE Report.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Catchpoint in 2008 and led it as CEO through its December 2025 acquisition by LogicMonitor.
- Helped establish DoubleClick’s quality-of-service and service-level management practices.
- Built Catchpoint with a team that reached 100 customers in 2013 and a global monitoring network reported at 2,459 vantage points in September 2023.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Published the LinkedIn article Every SaaS Platform Is Going Headless. Your Monitoring Isn’t Ready., discussing monitoring when AI agents replace familiar human interfaces.
- **2026-05** — Discussed Catchpoint’s combination with LogicMonitor and the need for properly placed sensors before AI-driven automation in an IT Brief interview.
- **2026-01** — Published a Forbes Technology Council article arguing that observability spending should be tied to business outcomes; identified as Catchpoint GM at LogicMonitor.
- **2025-12** — LogicMonitor completed the acquisition of Catchpoint on December 2; Daoudi published a personal note thanking colleagues, families, customers and mentors.

## Links

- Website: https://www.catchpoint.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdaoudi/

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Last updated: 2026-10-25