Cloudera has appointed experienced enterprise software executive Robert Bearden as President and Chief Executive Officer. He replaces Martin Cole who was acting as the interim CEO.
Bearden was co-founder and CEO of Hortonworks, a publicly traded open-source company that merged with Cloudera in 2019. He also served as President and COO of SpringSource, a leading provider of open-source developer tools, until its acquisition by VMWare in 2009.
Before joining SpringSource, Bearden served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. He also served as COO of JBoss, a leading open-source middleware company, until its acquisition by Red Hat in 2006.
“His extensive industry knowledge, unique customer insights and highly relevant CEO experience make Rob the natural choice to lead Cloudera into the future,” said Martin Cole, chairman of the board of directors and interim CEO of Cloudera.