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Chief Executive Officer Charles Sansbury has more than 20 years experience in strategic, financial, and operational leadership roles across the software industry. Most recently, he served as president and CEO of enterprise IT management software provider ASG Technologies from 2015 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software. Prior to that, Charles was COO and CFO of software holding company The Attachmate Group from 2006 until its acquisition by MicroFocus in 2014 as well as CFO of Vignette from 2001 until 2006. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Georgetown University and a master of business administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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As chief strategy officer, Abhas leads the overall corporate strategy for Cloudera and is responsible for creating the company vision, building the business and customer target operating model, communicating that with key stakeholders via clearly defined OKRs, and executing key transformational initiatives to realize that plan. He’s also tasked with driving growth and innovation and making appropriate build/buy partner decisions, including pricing and packaging, corporate development, and Cloudera’s innovation accelerator to launch new products. Previously, he served as chief of staff and vice president for business transformation at the company. Prior to the Cloudera/Hortonworks merger, he helped scale Hortonworks’ go-to-market efforts as global head of customer innovation and value management. A management consultant by training, he is passionate about driving action and change in the society and has led projects with multiple organizations including the World Economic Forum, Founders of the Future, and other nonprofits.
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Chief Product Officer Leo Brunnick has more than 30 years of experience leading high-performing technology teams. He leads Cloudera’s overall product and technology direction with an emphasis on customer success. Prior to Cloudera, he served as the Chief Operating Officer at Naviga, a software provider for content development in media, where he led a team of more than 600 product, marketing, engineering, and customer support professionals. Previously, Leo held several executive positions at Vignette–including Executive Vice President of Engineering, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer at Vignette–until its sale to OpenText in 2008. Leo served as an officer in the Marine Corps and received his bachelor’s degree in general engineering from Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University.
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As chief revenue officer, Frank leads global sales, solution engineering, demand generation, and partners and is responsible for go-to-market strategy. With more than 25 years of industry experience, he has led world-class sales teams with a focus on customer transformation to meet the challenges of the digital age. Prior to Cloudera, Frank was chief sales officer at Guidewire, responsible for the organization’s global sales, sales operations, customer relationship management, and partner alliances. During his leadership, Guidewire had record bookings and accelerated the shift from an on-premises solution to their first releases in the cloud. Previously, Frank was group vice president, North America, at Oracle, where he played a crucial role in the company’s transformation to the cloud. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Louisiana State University and a master of business administration degree from the University of Miami.
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Pat founded MI&S to deliver real-world, experience-based insights not found with traditional analyst firms and this is what makes MI&S unique in the analyst market. Today, he’s consistently ranked the #1 tech analyst by ARInsights. This gives him an overview that spans the industry and aligns our team to the realities of the high speed, evolving technology market.Before Patrick started the firm, he spent over 20 years as a high-tech strategy, product, and marketing executive who has addressed the datacenter, personal computer, mobility, graphics, and CPU ecosystems. Unlike other analyst service firms, Moorhead held executive positions leading strategy, marketing, and product groups. He is grounded in reality as he has led the planning and execution and had to live with the outcomes. He has over 30 years of experience, including 15 years of executive experience at high-tech companies (NCR, AT&T, Compaq, now HP, and AMD), leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing, including three industry board appointments.Moorhead has been recognized or published in The Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, USA Today, Barron’s, MarketWatch, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, PCMag, ZDNet, CNET, PC World, EE Times, CRN, ABC, BBC, San Jose Mercury News, Austin American Statesman, and many more.Note: Depending on space you can use the paragraphs in order of priority from top to bottom.
Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy
Pat founded MI&S to deliver real-world, experience-based insights not found with traditional analyst firms and this is what makes MI&S unique in the analyst market. Today, he’s consistently ranked the #1 tech analyst by ARInsights. This gives him an overview that spans the industry and aligns our team to the realities of the high speed, evolving technology market.Before Patrick started the firm, he spent over 20 years as a high-tech strategy, product, and marketing executive who has addressed the datacenter, personal computer, mobility, graphics, and CPU ecosystems. Unlike other analyst service firms, Moorhead held executive positions leading strategy, marketing, and product groups. He is grounded in reality as he has led the planning and execution and had to live with the outcomes. He has over 30 years of experience, including 15 years of executive experience at high-tech companies (NCR, AT&T, Compaq, now HP, and AMD), leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing, including three industry board appointments.Moorhead has been recognized or published in The Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, USA Today, Barron’s, MarketWatch, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, PCMag, ZDNet, CNET, PC World, EE Times, CRN, ABC, BBC, San Jose Mercury News, Austin American Statesman, and many more.Note: Depending on space you can use the paragraphs in order of priority from top to bottom.
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Bill is Senior Director of Data Warehouse Product Management at Cloudera. He is responsible for Open Data Lakehouse product strategy and Apache Iceberg integration with all Cloudera form factors. Bill also leads Apache Hive product strategy and roadmap. Bill has extensive experience in database, data integration, data management and analytics. Most recently, Bill was responsible for leading product strategies and GTM activities for SAP's flagship data products - SAP HANA Data Platform and SAP HANA Cloud. Prior to that he led product management for Sybase Replication Server. In both roles, Bill was instrumental in helping with the respective products' widespread market adoption. Bill holds an MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Rhode Island.
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Jess Von Bank is a 20-year industry veteran and impassioned evangelist of the modern experience of work and the future of talent. As both a former practitioner and an expert in bringing workforce solutions to market, Jess looks to broaden executive mindset to better design and deliver digital-first cultures that exceed the expectations of talent and the needs of the business. Jess is a global thought leader on HR transformation, digital experience, and workforce technology. She offers specialized expertise in recruiting, talent strategy, employer branding, DEI&B, brand building, and storytelling. She also runs the Now of Work, Mercer’s global community for HR and work tech. Jess is the President of Diverse Daisies, a nonprofit to enrich and empower girls. She lives in Minneapolis, where she races for free swag and raises her three daughters.
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Donna Beasley leads Cloudera’s enterprise-wide AI enablement—driving the operational adoption of copilots and agents, building governance that meets enterprise standards, and delivering measurable productivity gains across product, engineering, go-to-market, and operations. She partners with executives to align AI programs to business OKRs, scales AI literacy and change management, and ensures that internal learnings inform customer narratives across Cloudera’s hybrid, multi-cloud platform. Previously, Donna held VP-level leadership roles spanning the core functions of a SaaS company, including Vice President of Marketing, and Vice President of Advertising Operations at Naviga (formerly Newscycle), and earlier led product strategy and management at Atex. Her work has included consolidating martech stacks, launching AI pilots in marketing and support, orchestrating post-merger integrations, and managing global product portfolios. She is a graduate of Vista Equity Partners’ High Potential Leadership Program and holds a B.A. in Psychology from Samford University.
