Sam Heywood is responsible for driving Cloudera’s portfolio of security technologies. He is a seasoned product and marketing executive with leadership experience at several notable technology startups and is well versed in systems management, online CRM platforms, consumer eCommerce and security technologies. Prior to Cloudera Sam was VP Products and Marketing for Gazzang, leading global product innovation and delivery, corporate marketing and demand generation programs. Sam was Senior Director of Products at uShip, driving the company's expansion into multiple product lines spanning the consumer retail and commercial freight markets. Sam also held Product and Marketing Management roles at Convio driving development of a new business line based upon Force.com, and Product Development roles at Tivoli. Sam holds an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a B.S. in Computer Sciences.
