# John Beatty

> John Beatty is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Clover in 2010 and served as its CEO from 2016 to 2020. After a career spanning Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, Bix and Yahoo, he helped develop Clover’s merchant hardware and open software platform. He is now co-founder and president of Bench Computing, an AI workspace incubated at Sutter Hill Ventures.

- **Role:** Co-founder and President at Bench Computing, Inc.
- **Organizations:** Bench Computing, Inc., Clover Network, Inc., Sutter Hill Ventures, Yahoo, Bix, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, Cambridge Technology Partners
- **Education:** B.S. in Computer Science, Brigham Young University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Clover in 2010., Led Clover as CEO from 2016 to 2020., Clover sold its millionth device in September 2018 during his CEO tenure.

## Career timeline

- **1998-2000** — Associate Director at Cambridge Technology Partners.
- **2001-2003** — Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
- **2003-2006** — Staff Engineer at BEA Systems.
- **2006-2007** — Founding engineer at Bix, acquired by Yahoo.
- **2007-2009** — Principal Technical Yahoo! role, as listed by Signal.
- **2010** — Entrepreneur in residence at Sutter Hill Ventures; co-founded Clover.
- **2012** — First Data acquired Clover; Finovate lists Beatty as co-president and VP of engineering.
- **2014** — Published technical essays on Apple Pay and Clover’s Bierhaus ordering experiment.
- **2016-2020** — CEO of Clover.
- **2021** — Briefly remained with Clover part time after his CEO tenure, according to Payments Dive.
- **Current as of 2026-10** — Co-founder and president of Bench Computing.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Clover in 2010.
- Led Clover as CEO from 2016 to 2020.
- Clover sold its millionth device in September 2018 during his CEO tenure.
- Published developer explanations and demonstration code for Apple Pay.
- Co-founded Bench Computing, incubated at and backed by Sutter Hill Ventures.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Research snapshot: his personal website links to a Bench invitation; his public X bio and organizational listing identify him as Bench co-founder and president. This date is the verification month, not an announcement date.

## Links

- Website: https://www.johndbeatty.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndbeatty/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/john_d_beatty
- GitHub: https://github.com/beatty

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Last updated: 2026-10-11