A self-confessed conceptual thinker, Mick Hollison, the President of enterprise data cloud, Cloudera, is a proponent of data-driven decision-making who believes even intuition is based on the brain’s data around experience. He believes one of the great benefits of the cloud-era data platform is enabling customers to work with massive data sets that are also machine learning oriented.

In this Q&A with Tania Yuki, Founder of Shareablee and Chief Marketing Officer and EVP of Digital, Comscore, Mick Hollison shares his approach to embracing change and running with it to gain an immediate edge over his competitors.