Cloudera, the commercial Apache Hadoop company, today announced that software industry veteran Scott Dietzen is joining its Board of Directors.
A former senior executive at Yahoo!, Zimbra and BEA Systems, Dietzen brings a wealth of experience and leadership to Cloudera.
Dietzen has extensive leadership experience, having helped build, sell, and transition three major Internet technology companies.
Most recently, he was SVP, Applications at Yahoo!, where his responsibilities included Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Flickr, Answers, Groups, and Zimbra. He came to Yahoo! via the acquisition of open source email startup Zimbra, where he served as President and CTO. Before that Dietzen was CTO of BEA Systems — acquired by Oracle in 2008 — which he came to with the acquisition of Java and web application server pioneer WebLogic.
Dietzen holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.
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