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Safra Catz

Disciplines:
finance
enterprise software
business strategy/m&a
software/oracle

Summary

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.

Core Contribution

Built Oracle's M&A machine — overseeing billions in acquisitions including the hostile $10B PeopleSoft takeover — making Oracle's growth-through-acquisition strategy operationally possible and ensuring each acquisition was integrated to improve Oracle's overall position.

Historical Influences

Larry Ellison

Intellectual Lineage

Harvard Law School Donaldson Lufkin & JenretteOracle

Contemporaries & Peers

Larry Ellison Mark Hurd

Minds Influenced

Oracle's M&A strategyEnterprise software consolidation

Intellectual Posterity

Oracle co-CEOPeopleSoft acquisitionSun Microsystems acquisitionOracle M&A program

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