- Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.
- Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Phillips' responsibilities encompass global field operations including consulting, marketing, sales, alliances and channels, and customer programs, as well as corporate strategy. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Phillips was a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley in its technology group. With the firms Kidder Peabody (now defunct) and Sound View Technologies.
- Steven Feuerstein
Steven Feuerstein is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle database PL/SQL language, having written ten books on PL/SQL, including Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, all from O'Reilly Media. Steven has been developing software since 1980, spent five years with Oracle Corporation (1987-1992) and serves as a Senior Technology Advisor for Quest Software.
- Julio Fernandez
Dr. Julio A. Fernández is a Uruguayan astronomer whose hypothesised the existence of what became known as the Kuiper belt. Dr. Julio M. Fernandez (born 1954 in Santiago, Chile) is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, New York. Julio Fernandez studies single-molecule protein biophysics. His lab uses atomic force microscopes (AFM) for force spectroscopy to study the structure and folding of proteins.
- Bob Miner
Bob Miner (1942-1994) co-founded Software Development Labs in August 1977 with Larry Ellison, and Ed Oates. Software Development Labs later became Oracle Corporation. If Larry Ellison was the brain behind Oracle, Bob Miner was its heart. Bob was a co-founder and a well-liked manager for over two decades. He grew up in an Assyrian family in Cicero, Illinois. He graduated in mathematics in 1963 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Jeffrey O. Henley
Jeffrey O. Henley (Jeff Henley) is the Chairman of Oracle Corporation. He has held this position since January 2004, prior to which he was the Chief Financial Officer for 13 years from March 1991 to July 2004. He is also a member of the company's Board of Directors. Jeff Henley holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from UCSB and an MBA in Finance from UCLA.
- Thomas Kyte
Tom is a Vice President in Oracle Corporation, and is the Tom behind the popular web forum asktom, in which he himself answers queries of Oracle Developers/DBAs. He is a database architect, and one of the most respected figures in the Oracle community; for example, being listed as member of the Oak Table Network and an Oracle ACE. Thomas Kyte has also written books related to the Oracle RDBMS.
- Mike Ault
Mike Ault is the author of more than 20 Oracle books and hundreds of articles in national publications. He has five Oracle Masters Certificates and wrote the book "Oracle7 Administration and Management". Mike also wrote several of the "Exam Cram" books, and enjoys a reputation as a leading author and Oracle consultant. Mike is certified through Oracle8i through the Oracle certification process.
- Ed Oates
Ed Oates (1946-) co-founded Software Development Labs in August 1977 with Larry Ellison, and Bob Miner. Software Development Labs later became Oracle Corporation. Ed Oates graduated with a BA in mathematics from San Jose State University in 1968, and worked at Singer, the US Army Persinscom (drafted), Ampex, and Memorex before co-founding Oracle. He retired from the company in 1996 and is currently a member of the board of advisors of Auguri Corporation and Gloolabs, …
- Jonas Jacobi
Jonas Jacobi is a J2EE and open source evangelist at Oracle. A native of Sweden, Jonas has worked in the software industry for more than fifteen years. Prior to joining Oracle, Jonas worked at several major Swedish software companies in management, consulting, development, and project management roles. For the past three years, Jonas has been responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, …
- Safra A. Catz
Safra A. Catz (born 1961 in Holon, Israel) has been the Chief Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation since November 2005. She has also been a President of the company since January 2004 and a member of the company's Board of Directors since October 2001. She has been at Oracle Corporation since April 1999. Prior to joining Oracle, Catz was at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a global investment bank, …
- David Litchfield
David Litchfield (born 1975) is a renowned security expert from the United Kingdom, who focuses on the discovery and publication of computer security vulnerabilities with a special focus on database server software. Information Security Magazine voted him as "The World's Best Bug Hunter" for 2003. David has found hundreds of vulnerabilities in many popular products, among which the most outstanding discoveries were in products by Microsoft, Oracle and IBM.
- Michael Boskin
Michael J. Boskin is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In addition, he serves on several federal advisory panels and as an adviser to presidents and prime ministers, finance ministries, and central banks around the world, from the United States to China.
- Naomi O. Seligman
Naomi O. Seligman is a member of the Board of Directors of Oracle Corporation since November 2005.
- Greg Stein
Greg Stein (b. March 16, 1967 in Portland, OR), living in Palo Alto, CA, USA, is an engineering manager at Google. He has prior to that worked for Oracle Corporation, E-shop, Microsoft and CollabNet. He has been involved in free software projects like Subversion, WebDAV, Python and several Apache projects. He is also a director and past chairman of the Apache Software Foundation.
- Bernard Liautaud
Bernard Liautaud is chairman and chief strategy officer of Business Objects. Liautaud cofounded Business Objects in 1990 and was chief executive officer until September 2005. He took the company public on NASDAQ in September 1994, making it the first French software company listed in the United States. Since that time, Liautaud lead Business Objects through 12 successful years of growth and profitability, …
- Michael Capellas
Michael D. Capellas , president and CEO of MCI, recently confirmed his participation as speakers at WCIT 2006. Capellas is a 30-year veteran of the information technology business and an established thought leader in areas ranging from information technology, telecommunications and homeland security to the next generation of consumer electronics. Prior to joining MCI in December 2002, he was president of Hewlett-Packard Company. Previously, he was the chairman and CEO of Compaq.
- Melanie Craft
Melanie Craft Ellison (b. 1969) is an American romance novelist, who married Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in December 2003. Craft, a native of Pittsburgh, graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in archaeology and spent a year at the American University in Cairo. Before beginning her career as an author, she worked as a bartender, a house cleaner, a pastry chef, and a safari driver as she mentions on the cover of her first book.
- Mike Shaver
As a founding member of mozilla.org, Mike has enjoyed a rare opportunity to inflict a wide variety of trials and errors on the Mozilla code and project. He is stronger for it, and hopes that Mozilla is as well. Scheming diabolically from his fortress of solitude in Toronto, shaver meddles in matters ranging from platform architecture and implementation to licensing and organizational development. If you are short on opinions, he often has some to spare.
- Joseph Grundfest
Joseph A. Grundfest '78 is a nationally prominent expert on capital markets, corporate governance, and securities litigation. His scholarship has been published in the Harvard, Yale, and Stanford law reviews, and he has been recognized as one of the most influential attorneys in the United States.
- Michael D. Capellas
Michael D. Capellas was the President and CEO of MCI Inc.. He grew up in Warren, Ohio, and obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Kent State University in 1976. Before joining MCI, he was the CEO of Compaq. His business career has also covered management positions at Schlumberger Limited, SAP, and Oracle. Michael has accepted the position of CEO of First Data Corporation. He officially starts once the KKR deal is closed with First Data.
- Fabian Pascal
Fabian Pascal is a consultant to large software vendors such as IBM, Oracle Corporation, and Borland, but is better known as an author and seminar speaker. Born in Romania, Pascal lives in the San Francisco, California area of the US, and works in association with Christopher J. Date. Pascal is known for his sharp criticisms of the data management industry, trade press, current state of higher education, Western culture and alleged media bias.
- Keith Bostic
Keith Bostic is an American computer programmer. Bostic was a member of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, who created BSD. Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a free software version of BSD, which helped allow the creation of NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. BSD has also influenced and been influenced by both other Unix variants and other Unix-like operating systems such as GNU/Linux.
- Gordon Eubanks
Gordon Eubanks (b. November 7, 1946) is a microcomputer industry pioneer who worked with Gary Kildall in the early days of Digital Research. Eubanks attended Oklahoma State University. Dr. Kildall was his graduate thesis advisor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Eubank's 1976 master's thesis was a BASIC language compiler called BASIC-E designed for Kildall's new CP/M operating system.
- Murugan Pal
Murugan Pal a serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, Bay Area, USA. Murugan is currently an EIR with Foundation Capital. Being a social entrepreneur, he acts as a technology adviser for CK12. CK12 is a non-profit organization launched in 2006, that aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. Previously, Murugan was the founder and CTO of SpikeSource.
- Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik, of San Francisco, is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati. He is mostly known for his time at Microsoft (1997-2004), where he worked on the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer.
- Rajiv Gupta
Rajiv Gupta is a software pioneer in web services. He was co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project in 1999, and was one of the developers of the IA-64 architecture. He founded Confluent Software (now owned by Oracle Corporation), developing what became an industry-leading CoreSV product. He also founded Securent and supports Bodhtree (based in Hyderabad) as a technology adviser.
- David Ellison
David Ellison is an American actor. He is the son of Oracle Corporation founder, Larry Ellison.
- Rahul Bhandari
Rahul Bhandari is the Founding Managing Director of Paras Ventures LLC, an investment and consulting group for high-tech companies. He leverages over fifteen years of experience in venture development, M&A integration, and leading large-scale complex change programs to help companies succeed on a strategic and tactical basis.
- Charles Weiss
Charles Weiss (goes by Chas, or Chuck), is an American computer scientist and one of the first employees of Oracle Corporation, having joined in 1982 when there were only 25 employees. He has a patent for the Oracle Easy SQL product, one of the first SQL Query Editing tools ever created, and one of Oracle's first tools. He is also credited with the invention of the famous DUAL table in Oracle.
- Robert Mailer Anderson
Robert Mailer Anderson (born 1968) is an American novelist. His first novel, "Boonville", was published in 2001. Previously, he has written for the Anderson Valley Advertiser, a newspaper then published by his uncle Bruce Anderson. He is married to Nicola Miner (daughter of Oracle cofounder Bob Miner) and they reside in San Francisco where they are major benefactors to the arts and charities.
- Eagle Berns
Eagle Berns (September 19, 2004) worked for over thirty-five years in the computer software industry at Apple Computer, Oracle Corporation, and Software Publishing Corporation (SPC). During his tenure at those companies he established a reputation for forming strong R&D teams, and focusing their energies on producing high quality software products in a timely fashion. After obtaining his BS and MS in computer Science at Washington University, …
- Hector García Garcia-Molina
Héctor García Molina is a Mexican computer scientist. He served at the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001, as chairman of the Computer Science Department of Stanford University from January 2001 to December 2004 and is a member of Oracle Corporation's Board of Directors since October 2001. In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award.
- Steve Loyola
Steve Loyola is the President/CEO/Founder of Best Web Buys (a popular comparison shopping site) since July of 1997. He has been its primary architect and developer and has 21 years experience leading software development projects in a variety of domains. He previously served as Director of Research and Development for an Internet technology company in Silicon Valley that focused on supply chain management. His early career was spent at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, …
- Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff , Chairman & CEO
- Ralph Echemendia
Ralph Echemendia is well-known information security expert, ethical hacker and instructor who has been providing technical training to hundreds of professionals worldwide and has appeared on KTLA, CNN, Fox News, and Animal Planet, as well as in the pages of USA Today and Forbes magazine to name a few. He has been involved in the research, development and deployment of key security technologies currently powering some of the best-known sites on the Internet.
- Scott McNealy
Scott McNealy is chairman of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, a company he co-founded in 1982 and chairman of Sun Federal Inc. McNealy grew Sun from a Silicon Valley start-up to a leading provider of network computing infrastructure with 37,900 employees worldwide, all while positioning the Company as the model of corporate integrity. A champion of Sun's 24-year old strategy to share, McNealy is always fighting for openness and choice: "Without choice, you have no innovation.
- Ash Patel
OK I'm 25 years old, live in Dagenham and work at Canary Wharf. I share my life with my boyfriend of nearly 8 years (Adam) and Nooby (our cat). I gym three times a week, and have recently become a non-smoker. Just for the record, I should be seriously messed up, but I ain't so don't panic. lol.
- Gary S. Tidd
Gary S. Tidd , CEO & President An executive with a history of success in large and small companies, Gary Tidd has held leadership positions in both startup and internationally recognized companies in the IT industry. He brings to TeraCloud Corporation more than 20 years of leadership experience in enterprise software, database, and managed-service technologies.
- Tony Gaughan
Tony Gaughan Computer Associates Tony Gaughan is senior vice president of product development at CA, responsible for CAs database, database management and applications management solutions. Tony has more than 17 years of experience in enterprise software development.