How can one scale one’s data and cloud architecture? How does supporting a cloud center of excellence lead to product led growth? How can one transform organizational behavior between business and IT using technology and data?
In this episode, Fred Koopmans, VP of Product, discusses what it takes to build a successful publicly listed product led cloud company, why we are in the golden age of cloud adoption and what product leaders can do to reduce IT and business friction to build or retain their unicorn status.
About the Featured Speaker:
Fred leads Cloudera’s Platform product team, responsible for building an enterprise-ready, multi-tenant platform optimized to run efficiently and cost-effectively in any customer environment. His team covers all the foundational components of the platform – including security and governance, platform management, ingest and storage and private cloud infrastructure. Prior to Cloudera, Fred ran product management for the Service Provider division of the Citrix Cloud Networking Group and before that he was an early employee at Bytemobile. Fred holds a BS and MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Cloudera is a publicly listed software company that provides a software platform for data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning and analytics that runs in the cloud or on premises. Cloudera was the merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks and started as a hybrid open-source Apache Hadoop distribution, CDH (Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop), that targeted enterprise-class deployments of that technology. Cloudera is a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation.