Mike Olson

Mike Olson, Chairman Of The Board at Cityside

Mike Olson is currently the Chairman Of The Board at Cityside, a position he has held since March 2020.1 He is based in Berkeley, California, United States.

Olson has an extensive background in the technology industry, particularly in database management systems. Some of his key experiences include:

• CEO and Founder at Cloudera from June 2008 to June 20131
• Board Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera from June 2013 to January 20191
• Vice President, Embedded Technologies at Oracle Corporation from February 2006 to January 2008, after Oracle acquired Sleepycat Software where Olson was CEO1
• Architect at Illustra Information Technologies and Illustra from 1993 to 1997, working on commercializing the Postgres database engine1

Olson has also served on the boards of several organizations, including:

• Trustee at OpenCorporates from June 2018 to June 20221
• Board Member at Cloudera Foundation from April 2017 to April 20211
• Chairman of the Board at DataKind from March 2014 to July 20171

His area of research was database management systems, and he was a key developer on the Postgres project during his undergraduate and graduate years.1