Folia Grace is vice president of applications marketing for Oracle Applications and cloud services. In her current role, Ms. Grace helps define and drive the go-to-market strategy for Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Applications, and Oracle application cloud services.
Ms. Grace has more than 25 years in financial operations, tax and audit consulting, and technology marketing. A certified public accountant, she combines experience "in the trenches" of business with hands-on software training, implementation, sales, product management, and product marketing to advocate for the value gained from Oracle software solutions. During her tenure at Oracle, she led marketing for ERP applications, BI applications, the launch of Oracle Fusion Applications, and now the move into software as a service. She draws upon her experience in business and her work with hundreds of customers to identify the business value of technology solutions to solve complex customer challenges. Her passion is identifying unique ways to use technology to dramatically improve business results and communicating those solutions customers on a global scale.
Prior to joining Oracle, Ms. Grace led PeopleSoft's marketing efforts of PeopleSoft Financials and oversaw successful launches of PeopleSoft Enterprise Services Automation and PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management. Ms. Grace also worked with Deloitte & Touche in audit and tax and as an independent consultant, overseeing several system implementations and providing clients with counsel around developing financial systems strategies.
Ms. Grace earned her bachelor's degree in business finance with an emphasis in accounting from San Jose State University.
