Tom has a distinguished 30-year career in the enterprise software market. Prior to Cloudera, he was vice president and general manager of enterprise security at HP. Previous to HP, Tom served as CEO of enterprise security company ArcSight, which HP acquired in 2010. Tom led ArcSight through its successful initial public offering and subsequent sale to HP. Before ArcSight, Tom was vice president of business information services for IBM, following the acquisition of Trigo Technologies, a master data management (MDM) software company, where he served as CEO. Tom currently is a board member for Jive Software, privately held Ombud, ThreatStream, and Cloudera. Tom graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor’s of science degree in mechanical engineering.