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John Gould
Cloudera Inc.
Senior Corporate Counsel: Product, Privacy, and Intellectual Property
John currently works for Cloudera where he manages legal matters related to products, privacy, and intellectual property. John joined Cloudera after their acquisition of Hortonworks in 2019, where he held a similar role. At Cloudera, John continues to develop and implement open source business strategies for consuming, contributing, licensing, and distributing open source software. Prior to Cloudera/Hortonworks, John worked as Senior IP counsel for Dell Technologies after its acquisition of EMC, where he started his career. At EMC and later Dell, John was responsible for patent prep and prosecution, strategic IP transactions, and open source strategy. John is admitted to practice in the state of California and before the USPTO. He attended the University of New Hampshire School of Law, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude, and received a B.S in Computer Science from Hope College in Holland Michigan. Prior to law school, he spent several years working as an engineer for Vignette Corporation, later acquired by Open Text. In his free time, John enjoys wrenching on anything mechanical in his garage, skiing, sailing, and escaping both climate control and florescent lights with his 120lbs Mastiff.