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Sansbury most recently served as president and CEO of ASG Technologies.
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He worked for Lehman Brothers from 1993 to 1996 and Morgan Stanley from 1996 to 2000.
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He also served in two CFO roles, one at content and document management company Vignette Corp.
Cloudera has selected IT veteran executive Charles Sansbury as its new CEO, tapping him to take over for outgoing chief Rob Bearden on August 7. News of Bearden’s exit broke in June.
"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,” Sansbury said in a statement. “I am excited about the opportunity to take the company into its next phase of growth as the trusted enterprise AI company.”
But who is Sansbury? We snooped around to round up the key details.
- Sansbury most recently served as president and CEO of enterprise IT company ASG Technologies. He was in that role from 2015 until the close of its sale to Rocket Software and according to his Linkedin page has been on sabbatical ever since.
- He has a background in finance, working for Lehman Brothers from 1993 to 1996 and Morgan Stanley from 1996 to 2000.
- Sansbury also served in two CFO roles, one at content and document management company Vignette Corp. (2000-2006) and again at The Attachmate Group, where he also served as COO (2006-2014)
Cloudera is an American software and enterprise data management and analytics platform. In 2021, it was acquired by private equity firms Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR. In 2022, it earned a spot in Gartner’s magic quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS).
More recently, Cloudera has positioned itself to cash in on the generative artificial intelligence (AI) boom, offering tools for companies to build, deploy and monitor AI applications.