cldr-20210316

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

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Date of Report (date of earliest event reported)

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Delaware	001-38069	26-2922329
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

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5470 Great America Parkway

Santa Clara, CA 95054

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Title of each Class	Trading symbol	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.00005 per share	CLDR	New York Stock Exchange

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Item 5.02 - Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On March 16, 2021, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Cloudera, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Mick Hollison, age 52, as President of the Company. Mr. Hollison previously served as the Company’s Chief Marketing and Digital Transformation Officer since September of 2016. Mr. Hollison has had a successful 30-year career in enterprise and cloud software. Prior to joining Cloudera in 2016, he served as CMO of sales acceleration and machine learning company InsideSales.com from June 2013 until September 2016. Prior to InsideSales, Mr. Hollison served as global vice president of marketing and strategy at Citrix, where he led the company’s push into the high-growth desktop virtualization market. Before Citrix, Mr. Hollison managed executive marketing at Microsoft and held numerous leadership positions at IBM Software. Mr. Hollison is an advisory board member for Epic Ventures and a contributing author on Inc.com. Mr. Hollison graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a bachelor's of science degree in management.

Robert Bearden, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, previously held the position of President. Mr. Bearden will continue serving as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Hollison has not been involved in any transactions that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


March 22, 2021	CLOUDERA, INC.

	By:	/s/ David Howard
	Name:	David Howard
	Title:	Chief Legal Officer