Robert Bearden

Robert G.
Bearden was the founder of Hortonworks, Inc. (founded in 2011) where he held the title of President, Chief Executive Officer & Director from 2018 to 2019.
He is currently the Chairman at Nlyte Software Ltd. since 2019, a Director at Docker, Inc., Mark43, Inc., Data Republic Pty Ltd., Gradient Learning, and a Director at Nlyte Software Ltd. (United Kingdom) since 2019.
In his former positions, Mr. Bearden served as the President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Cloudera, Inc. from 2020 to 2021.
He was also the Chairman at Pentaho Corp., a Director at Black Duck Software, Inc., EnterpriseDB Corp., Gluster, Inc., Pipewise, Inc., and Oracle Corp.
Additionally, he held the position of Principal at Oracle Corp., Executive Vice President at i2 Technologies, Inc., Senior Vice President-Worldwide Sales at Manhattan Associates, Inc., and Executive Vice President at Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC.
Mr. Bearden's education includes an undergraduate degree from Jacksonville State University.