Robert Bearden

Founder of Hortonworks, Inc., Robert G. Bearden is a businessperson who has been the head of 6 different companies and presently occupies the position of Chairman for Nlyte Software Ltd., Chief Executive Officer & Director at Cloudera, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer & Director at Docker, Inc. He is also on the board of Mark43, Inc., Data Republic Pty Ltd. and Nlyte Software Ltd. (United Kingdom). Robert G. Bearden previously was Principal at Oracle Corp., Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital Corp., Venture Partner at Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC, Senior Vice President-Worldwide Sales of Manhattan Associates, Inc., Chairman at Pentaho Corp., President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Hortonworks, Inc., President & Chief Operating Officer of SpringSource Global, Inc., Chief Operating Officer at JBoss, Inc. and Executive Vice President of i2 Technologies, Inc. Robert G. Bearden received an undergraduate degree from Jacksonville State University.