Cloudera announced the appointment of Robert Bearden as President and Chief Executive Officer. Bearden is an experienced enterprise software executive. He was co-founder and CEO of Hortonworks.

He also served as President and COO of SpringSource. Before joining SpringSource, Bearden served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. He also served as COO of JBoss, until its acquisition by Red Hat in 2006.

Martin Cole will be retiring and current board member Nicholas Graziano will assume the duties of chairman of the board of directors. Kimberly Hammonds will also be leaving the board. Graziano has been Portfolio Manager of Icahn Capital LP since February 2018.

He was previously the Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Venetus Partners LP. Graziano currently serves on the boards of directors of Conduent Incorporated, Herbalife Nutrition Ltd., Herc Holdings Inc. and Xerox Corporation.