Keynotes at Oracle OpenWorld

Lawrence J. Ellison has been Oracle's Chief Executive Officer and a director since he co-founded the company in June 1977. Mr. Ellison served as Chairman of the Board from May 1990 until October 1992 and from June 1995 until January 2004. He served as President from May 1978 to June 1996.

Safra A. Catz has served as a President since January 2004, as Chief Financial Officer since November 2005, and as a Director since October 2001. She served as an Executive Vice President from November 1999 to January 2004, and as Senior Vice President from April 1999 to October 1999.

Hector Ruiz is chairman and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Dr. Ruiz joined AMD in January 2000 as president and chief operating officer, and was named chief executive officer in April 2002. He was appointed as chairman of the board in April 2004.

Previously, Dr. Ruiz served as president of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector. In his 22-year career with the technology firm, Dr. Ruiz held a variety of executive positions in the United States and overseas. He also worked at Texas Instruments in the company's research laboratories and manufacturing operations.

Born in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Dr. Ruiz earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. He then earned his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Rice University in 1973.

Dr. Ruiz is passionate about the role of technology in education and empowering the underprivileged. At the 2004 World Economic Forum in Davos, he announced AMD's 50x15 Initiative, a commitment to empower 50% of the world's population with basic Internet access by the year 2015.

Dr. Ruiz currently serves on the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST). PCAST advises the President of the United States on issues related to technology, scientific research priorities, and math and science education.

Dr. Ruiz also serves as chairman of the board of Spansion Inc., is a board member of the Eastman Kodak Company and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), and serves on the Board of Trustees of Rice University.

Charles Phillips is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors. He is responsible for 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. Prior to his career on Wall Street, Mr. Phillips was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. Mr. Phillips holds a BS in Computer Science from the United States Air Force Academy, an MBA from Hampton University, and a JD from New York Law School and is a member of the bar in Washington D.C. and Georgia. Mr. Phillips is on the boards of Viacom Corporation, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, and New York Law School. Mr. Phillips also serves as a director of Viacom Inc.

Mark Hurd has been chief executive officer and president of HP and a member of the company's board of directors since early 2005. In September 2006, he was named chairman of the board.

With the goal of establishing HP as the world's leading information technology company, Hurd has sharpened HP's strategic focus and concentrated its R&D investments on three long-term growth opportunities: next-generation enterprise data center architecture and services; technologies for always connected, always personal mobile experiences; and a broad transition from analog to digital imaging and printing across the consumer, commercial and industrial markets.

At the same time, Hurd has improved HP's operating efficiency and execution as well as its financial performance and customer focus. The result has been increasing growth and profitability, greater value for shareholders and customers, and a stronger competitive position in global IT markets.

Prior to joining HP, Hurd spent 25 years at NCR Corp., where he held a variety of management, operations, and sales and marketing roles that culminated in his two-year tenure as chief executive officer and president. His leadership was marked by successful efforts to improve operations, bolster the position of NCR's product line and build a strong executive team.

Hurd is a member of the Technology CEO Council, a coalition of chairmen and chief executive officers of IT companies, which develops and advocates public policy positions on technology and trade issues.

He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1979 from Baylor University.

Andrew Mendelsohn is senior vice president for Oracle's Server Technologies at Oracle. He is responsible for the development and product management of Oracle's database product. His team drives security, globalization, and high availability technologies across the OracleDatabase, Application Server, and Collaboration Suite products.

Mr. Mendelsohn has been at Oracle since May 1984. He began his career at Oracle as a developer on the Oracle 5.1 database release. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked at Hewlett-Packard and ESVEL.

Mr. Mendelsohn holds a B.S.E. in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University and performed graduate work in computer science at M.I.T. In his spare time, he enjoys family activities and tennis.

Paul S. Otellini has been a director of Intel since 2002 and President and Chief Executive Officer since May 2005. He was Intel's Chief Operating Officer from 2002 to 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Otellini was Executive Vice President and General Manager, Intel Architecture Group, from 1998 to 2002; Executive Vice President and General Manager, Sales and Marketing Group, from 1996 to 1998; and Senior Vice President and General Manager, Sales and Marketing Group, from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Otellini joined Intel in 1974. Mr. Otellini is a director of Google Inc.

Otellini received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco in 1972, and a MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.

Thomas Kurian is senior vice president of development for Oracle middleware platform products, including Oracle Application Server and development tools. He is responsible for shaping all technological aspects of the products' development, release process, management, and business development.

Mr. Kurian has been with Oracle since 1996, holding various product management and development positions in Oracle's Server Technologies Division. He played a key role in bringing Oracle9i Application Server to market. He also served as Oracle's vice president of e-business, driving a number of company-wide initiatives focused on transforming Oracle into an e-business.

Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Kurian worked in London, Brussels, and San Francisco as a consultant with McKinsey and Company, an international management consulting firm, serving clients in the software, telecommunications and financial services industries.

Mr. Kurian holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, summa cum laude, graduating from Princeton University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He serves as an advisory member on the boards of several international venture funds and software companies.

Jonathan Schwartz is chief executive officer and president of Sun Microsystems, and a member of Sun's board of directors. He became Sun's CEO in 2006, succeeding the Company's co-founder and current chairman of the board, Scott McNealy.

Schwartz was promoted to president and chief operating officer in 2004, and managed all operational functions at Sun—from product development and marketing, to global sales and service. An inveterate blogger, Schwartz has led Sun's drive to engage the marketplace, and redefine corporate transparency.

A leader behind many of Sun's open source and standard setting initiatives, Jonathan's been an outspoken advocate for the network as a utility with more than just value for the computing industry—but as a tool for driving economic, social and political progress.

Prior to his position as COO, Schwartz served as Sun's executive vice president for software, its Chief Strategy Officer, and held a variety of leadership positions across product and corporate development. He joined Sun in 1996 after the Company acquired Lighthouse Design, where he was CEO and co-founder. Prior to that, Schwartz was with McKinsey & Co.

Schwartz received degrees in economics and mathematics from Wesleyan University.

Michael Dell, born in February 1965, is the chairman of the Board of Directors of Dell, the company he founded in 1984 with $1,000 and an unprecedented idea—to build relationships directly with customers. In 1992, Mr. Dell became the youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500.

Mr. Dell is the author of Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, his story of the rise of the company and the strategies he has refined that apply to all businesses. He serves on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the executive committee of the International Business Council and is a member of the U.S. Business Council. Mr. Dell also serves on the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.

Lawrence J. Ellison has been Oracle's Chief Executive Officer and a director since he co-founded the company in June 1977. Mr. Ellison served as Chairman of the Board from May 1990 until October 1992 and from June 1995 until January 2004. He served as President from May 1978 to June 1996.