Management
Cloudera’s management team has deep expertise in building and delivering enterprise software. We help companies deploy and use the powerful new data platform built on Hadoop.
Michael Olson
Chief Executive Officer
Mike was formerly CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle Corporation as Vice President for Embedded Technologies after Oracle’s acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Prior to joining Sleepycat, Mike held technical and business positions at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra Information Technologies and Informix Software. Mike has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Amr Awadallah
Vice President, Engineering
Amr co-founded VivaSmart in June of 1999. Yahoo! acquired VivaSmart in June 2000, and uses the VivaSmart technology as the core of the Yahoo! shopping service. Amr served as Vice President of Engineering, and led a team that used Hadoop extensively for data analysis and business intelligence across the Yahoo! online services. Amr holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Omer Trajman
Vice President, Customer Solutions
Prior to joining Cloudera, Omer was responsible for cloud computing and virtualization initiatives at Vertica Systems. Among his projects was the integration of Vertica’s products with Apache Hadoop. He also served as Director of Field Engineering and built and managed Vertica’s customer-facing team. Omer was responsible for ensuring success, from pre-sales to production deployment, for Vertica’s largest customers tackling growing data challenges. Omer received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University and was a visiting scholar at Oxford University reading Computation and Electrical Engineering.
John Kreisa
Vice President, Marketing
Prior to joining Cloudera, John was responsible for product and industry marketing at Mark Logic Inc. While there he led industry focused marketing activities coordinating demand generation initiatives, providing focused sales tools and targeted messaging. At Mark Logic he was also responsible for leading all product pricing, packaging and launch activities. Widely quoted, he was a primary spokes person to media, analyst and at a wide range of industry events. Prior to Mark Logic John was at Business Objects marketing in the high-growth business intelligence market. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jeff Hammerbacher
Vice President, Products
Prior to joining Cloudera, Jeff conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. The Data team was responsible for inventing and building powerful data analysis applications on Hadoop. That system is the core data platform at Facebook for improving the user experience and driving revenue. Before he joined Facebook, Jeff worked as a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University.
Doug Cutting
Architect
Doug is the creator of numerous successful open source projects, including Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop. Doug joined Cloudera in 2009 from Yahoo!, where he was a key member of the team that built and deployed a production Hadoop storage and analysis cluster for mission-critical business analytics. Doug holds a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and sits on the Board of the Apache Software Foundation.
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