Software industry veteran Charles Sansbury is new CEO of Cloudera
Cloudera has announced the official appointment of Charles Sansbury as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), with effect from August 7, 2023.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
In his new role, Sansbury – who has extensive leadership experience across the software industry to his credit – will focus on business growth acceleration and spearheading Cloudera’s technology advancement to enable enterprise AI at scale.
Jeff Hawn, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Cloudera, said: “I am pleased to announce that Charles Sansbury has been appointed as Cloudera CEO.
“In his 20-plus years in corporate leadership roles, Charles has led successful business strategies and operational initiatives that have delivered accelerated business growth.
“His leadership will drive Cloudera’s exciting hybrid data strategy in the era of AI that enables companies to benefit from all their data,” said Hawn.
Key leadership roles
Most recently, Sansbury (pictured) was the CEO of ASG Technologies, from 2015 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software.
Prior to that, he was the COO of The Attachmate Group, from 2011 until its 2014 sale to MicroFocus.
He was also the CFO of The Attachmate Group, from 2006 until 2011, and CFO of Vignette from 2001 until 2006.
Sansbury noted: “I am grateful to the board for entrusting me with the leadership of Cloudera, and I am excited about the opportunity to take the company into its next phase of growth.
“I was drawn to Cloudera for the quality of its team, its world-class customers and its position as a technology leader delivering critical enterprise AI capabilities.
“With over 25 million terabytes of data under management, Cloudera guides many Fortune 1000 enterprises who are focused on implementing open data lakehouses as a major step toward their expanded use of artificial intelligence and machine learning,” Sansbury added.
Cloudera was founded in 2008 by several of the brightest minds at Silicon Valley’s leading companies, including Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook.
