Rob Bearden Board’s Director, Gluster

Gluster, Inc. announced that Rob Bearden has joined the company’s board of directors.

 Throughout his 20-year career, Bearden has made significant contributions in the open source community. He is currently president and chief operating officer of Hortonworks, a company focused on adoption and maturation of the open source Apache Hadoop project. Previously, he served as president and chief operating officer of SpringSource until its acquisition by VMware, as COO of Jboss through its acquisition by RedHat, and as chairman of the board of Pentaho. Bearden will support Gluster’s continued growth and will provide guidance to help further develop its open source community.

"Rob is a terrific addition to Gluster’s board of directors and is already bringing his expertise to bear as we grow our open source community and expand our commercial solutions," said Ben Golub, president and CEO of Gluster. "Gluster is committed to providing innovative storage solutions for the data center and cloud environments to the enterprise, and Rob’s insight will help us to accelerate the growth of our open source community."

Prior to SpringSource, Bearden served as entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. He was also COO for OpenSpan, a desktop integration software provider. Previously Bearden served as COO for JBoss, an open source middleware company, where he helped architect and execute the company’s business model, managed its worldwide operations, and orchestrated its acquisition by Red Hat in 2006. Bearden also served in senior roles at I2, Manhattan Associates, and Oracle, where he directed a $1 billion sales organization. In addition to Gluster, Bearden serves on the board of other open source companies, including Pentaho and Black Duck.

"Gluster has an enviable position in the market, because it has the unique technology and the capabilities to break open one of the last bastions of proprietary and monolithic technology in IT," said Bearden. "I am honored to join Gluster’s board and work with a talented team that is leading the innovation in storage."