Mr Rob Bearden

KANDO id: 42012

Bio

Rob is a Venture Partner at Benchmark Capital and the Chairman at Pentaho. Bearden has made significant contributions in the open source community both advising and running successful companies throughout the years. Until its recent acquisition by VMware, Bearden was President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SpringSource. Before joining SpringSource, Bearden served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital, a leading venture capital firm based in the Silicon Valley. He was also COO for OpenSpan, a desktop integration software provider. Previously Bearden served as COO for JBoss, the world’s leading open source middleware company, where he helped architect and execute the company’s business model, managed its worldwide operations, and orchestrated its successful acquisition by Red Hat in 2006.

Career


Cloudera Inc

Provider of Hadoop-based software and services.

HortonWorks - founder


Benchmark Capital

Early stage venture capital firm focused on social, mobile, local and cloud companies.

SpringSource Inc


Education