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American venture capitalist who was Oracle's first outside investor and served as chairman of Oracle's board for decades — providing the early funding and board oversight that allowed Ellison to build Oracle — and who was one of Silicon Valley's early venture capitalists.
American entrepreneur who co-founded Oracle — the dominant enterprise database company — and built it through relentless sales aggression, competitive brinksmanship, and a genuine technical conviction that relational databases would become the core infrastructure of every large organization.
American executive who has served as Oracle's co-CEO (with Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd) since 2014 — and who has been Oracle's chief financial and M&A officer since 1999 — overseeing Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft, Siebel, Sun Microsystems, and dozens of others.