Robert G. Beardon

Robert Bearden is co-founder and CEO of Sema4.ai, an enterprise AI company that helps customers build, run, and manage intelligent AI agents that combine actions, intelligence, and enterprise context to transform how people work. He was co-founder and CEO of Hortonworks, a publicly traded open-source company that merged with Cloudera in 2019. He was then CEO of Docker in 2019 and remains on the board. Mr. Bearden returned to Cloudera in late 2019 to serve as CEO where he led the restructuring and sale to private equity firms KKR and CDR for $5.3 billion. Previously, he served as president and COO of SpringSource, a leading provider of open-source developer tools, until its acquisition by VMWare in 2009, served as entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital and served as president and COO of JBoss, a leading open-source middleware company, until its acquisition by Red Hat in 2006.