Kenneth Smith
General Manager, Energy, Cloudera
As the General Manager, Energy, Kenneth Smith is responsible for establishing and leading the execution of a winning go-to-market strategy for Cloudera in the energy industry. Duties include development of successful thought leadership and proactively working with Cloudera sales and product management, prospects, customers and partners to identify new solutions and industry-specific requirements for the energy market. He also ensures appropriate energy industry expertise is provided and leveraged during the sales and solution implementation cycle, and helps develop successful strategies to drive adoption of Cloudera products and services in the segment.
Kenneth has over 15 years of proven success as a sales executive across multiple industries, the last eight spent in the energy sector, through the delivery of high-value propositioned products and solutions, with a track record of developing reciprocal, rewarding relationships with his customers, partners and colleagues.