Oracle OpenWorld Keynotes

Larry Ellison has been CEO of Oracle Corporation since he founded the company in 1977. He also races sailboats, flies planes, and plays tennis and guitar.

Mr. Noriyuki Toyoki is a Fujitsu Limited Corporate Senior Vice President and President of the System Products Business with responsibility for the development of SPARC servers and all system products. Mr. Toyoki has capitalized on the strong and complementary Fujitsu-Oracle partnership; leading the Fujitsu R&D organization to closely collaborate with the Oracle R&D team toward challenging goals. Performance, value and reliability have been common factors throughout his 36 year career with Fujitsu where he started as a mainframe hardware engineer. Mr. Toyoki holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Mr. Toyoki is [in]famous among his staff for practical jokes that lighten the office mood. At heart he is a true engineer and enjoys tinkering with all things automotive and building his own PCs. He resides in Yokohama with his wife.

Mark Hurd is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors. He joined Oracle in 2010, bringing more than 30 years of technology industry leadership, computer hardware expertise, and executive management experience to his role with the company. As President, Mr. Hurd oversees the corporate direction and strategy for Oracle's global field operations, including marketing, sales, consulting, alliances and channels, and support. He focuses on strategy, leadership, innovation, and customers. Says Mr. Hurd, "It's our job as a company to help our customers save money and innovate." MarkHurd/Oracle/President

Before joining Oracle, Mr. Hurd served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of HP, where his focus on customers, innovation, improved operational efficiency and execution led to significant company growth. Prior to that, he spent 25 years at NCR Corporation, where he held a variety of management, operations, sales, and marketing roles, ultimately serving as the company's Chief Executive Officer and President and leading a successful effort to improve operational efficiency, strengthen the product line, and drive growth.

Mr. Hurd was listed as one of Forbes' Market's Best Managers for 2009. In 2007, Mr. Hurd was named one of Fortune Magazine's 25 Most Powerful People in Business. He was recognized multiple times by Business 2.0 magazine as one of the 50 Who Matter Now and by Barron's in its Best CEOs lists. The San Francisco Chronicle honored him as the 2008 CEO of the Year. He appeared on CRN's 25 Most Influential Executives list in three separate years and was twice one of their Top 25 Executives.

Mr. Hurd earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1979 from Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, which he attended on a tennis scholarship. He continues to show his passion for tennis, supporting Baylor's national championship tennis program through philanthropic donations to upgrade and renovate facilities in the Hurd Tennis Building, which is part of the Hurd Tennis Center. He also supports the Baylor Bear Foundation and the Men's Tennis Excellence Fund.

Since joining Oracle, Mr. Hurd has worked to share Oracle's strategy and vision with customers, partners, shareholders, and investors. "Our strategy is complete stack, open, best-of-breed at every single layer of the architecture," he says. "We vertically integrate those best-of-breed pieces for extreme performance and total-cost-of-ownership benefit to give you differentiation. Our products are designed to be the best technology at every single layer of the stack, and then be vertically integrated. We want to give customers choices for how they access that technology—on premises, building a private cloud, using a public cloud, or a hybrid cloud combination. It's your choice how you get access to all of this technology."

As one of the world's largest enterprise technology companies, Oracle has more than 380,000 customers in 145 countries and annual revenues of $35.6 billion. The company engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in customer data centers—from servers and storage, to database and middleware, through applications. Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is engineered to work together as a single system. Oracle's industry-leading on-premises and cloud-based solutions give customers complete deployment flexibility and unmatched benefits, including unbreakable security, high availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership. The company has an active mergers and acquisitions program, with more than 80 in the past six years, including the industry-transforming acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Mr. Hurd's leadership in managing past acquisition integrations has enabled him to take a significant role in Oracle's acquisition strategy. He is also responsible for Oracle's global business units for industries, which build products for specific industries such as telecommunications, financial services, health sciences, retail, utilities, and public sector enterprises. Says Mr. Hurd, "This industry focus is an important strategy for us. We get deeper into these industry verticals because they solve our customers' most difficult problems, which are very industry- and business-specific."

Andrew Mendelsohn is senior vice president for Database Server Technologies at Oracle. He is responsible for the development and product management of Oracle’s family of database products, including software products such as Oracle Database, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, Oracle Berkeley DB, and Oracle NoSQL Database and engineered systems such as Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Database Appliance, and Oracle Big Data Appliance. Mendelsohn has been at Oracle since May 1984. He began his career at Oracle as a developer on Release 5.1 of Oracle Database. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked at HP and ESVEL. Mendelsohn holds a BSE in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University and performed graduate work in computer science at M.I.T.

As senior vice president of Systems Technology at Oracle, Juan Loaiza is in charge of developing the mission-critical capabilities of Oracle Database, including data and transaction management, high availability, performance, backup and recovery, enterprise replication, and Oracle Exadata. Loaiza joined the Oracle Database development organization in 1988, and has contributed to every Oracle Database release since Oracle Version 6. Loaiza holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Thomas Kurian is Executive Vice President of Oracle Product Development and reports to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. He is responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, software development, and delivery of Oracle’s software product portfolio including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and ERP, CRM, and supply chain management applications. For the past several years, Mr. Kurian has been responsible for the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. Under Mr. Kurian’s leadership, the Oracle Fusion Middleware business became the fastest-growing business within Oracle and the industry’s leading middleware product suite. Since January 2008, Mr. Kurian has also led the development for Oracle’s next-generation business applications, Oracle Fusion Applications.

Mr. Kurian has been with Oracle since 1996, holding various product management and development positions. 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 has a BA in electrical engineering from Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude. He also has an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He serves as an advisory member on the boards of several international venture funds and software companies.

Joe Tucci is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation. Tucci has been EMC's Chairman since January 2006 and CEO since January 2001, one year after he joined the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of VMware Corporation. He is based at EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Tucci has led EMC through a period of dramatic revitalization, continued market share gains and sustained double-digit growth. He has transformed EMC's business model from what was a near exclusive focus on high-end storage platforms. With revenues of $20 billion in 2011 and more than 53,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

In 2011, Tucci oversaw the most aggressive new product introduction cycle in the company's history. Since 2003, he has spearheaded the investment of more than $14 billion in strategic acquisitions to fill out EMC's product portfolio, enter new market segments and expand the company's addressable market opportunity. He has expanded the company's marketplace beyond large enterprises to commercial and small-medium businesses, broadened the company's industry alliances, and established new selling, partnership and distribution channels. Over the same period, Tucci has strengthened EMC's management team with the integration of executives from other major technology companies. He has championed EMC's use of Six Sigma to improve its business processes and has engaged employees in the Total Customer Experience, EMC's commitment to consistently exceed customers' expectations for quality, service, innovation and interaction. Acknowledging EMC's rejuvenation under Tucci's leadership, Barron's named him one of the world's Best CEOs for the second year in a row in 2012.

Before joining EMC, Tucci directed the financial and operational rebirth of Wang Global during six years as its Chairman and CEO. At Wang, he guided the company through a rapid and successful emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and transformed the company from a midrange computer manufacturer into a worldwide leader in networked technology services and solutions. Under his leadership, Wang acquired and integrated ten companies from 1995 through 1999, and its market capitalization more than tripled. In June 1999, Wang was acquired by Getronics NV. Prior to joining Wang in 1990, Tucci was President of U.S. Information Systems for Unisys Corporation, a position he assumed after the 1986 merger of Sperry and Burroughs that created Unisys. He began his career as a systems programmer at RCA Corporation and holds a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College and an MS in Business Policy from Columbia University.

He is one of 150 CEO members of The Business Roundtable and the former chairman of its Task Force on Education and the Workforce. He is one of nine chief executives who steer The Technology CEO Council, the IT industry's leading public policy advocacy organization, and is a member of the Executive Committee of TechNet, a network of CEOs who work to advance the U.S.'s global leadership in innovation. In addition, Tucci is a member of the Board of Directors of Paychex, Inc.; a member of the Board of Advisors of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College; a member of the Board of Trustees of Northeastern University; a member of the Board of Overseers, Columbia Business School; a member of the Advisory Board of Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China; and an Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

John Fowler is Executive Vice President of Systems. Mr. Fowler has extensive experience in corporate strategy as well as systems and software development. Before coming to Oracle in 2010, when the company acquired Sun, he worked at Sun for more than 14 years, where he served in several influential roles, including Executive Vice President of Sun's Systems Group; Chief Technology Officer for Sun's Software organization; and Executive Vice President of Sun's x64 Systems Group, focused on delivering industry-standard network computing systems for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. At Oracle, Mr. Fowler continues to be responsible for the delivery of all Sun systems products, including SPARC and x64-based servers, as well as networking and disk and tape storage products. Additionally, he is responsible for systems software, including Oracle Solaris.

Edward Screven is Chief Corporate Architect at Oracle. Reporting to CEO, Larry Ellison, he drives technology and architecture decisions across all Oracle products to ensure that product directions are consistent with Oracle's overall strategy. An Oracle veteran since 1986, he is responsible for Oracle's open source businesses including Linux, Virtualization, and MySQL. Mr. Screven also leads company-wide strategic initiatives including Industry Standards and Security.

As senior vice president of Systems Technology at Oracle, Juan Loaiza is in charge of developing the mission-critical capabilities of Oracle Database, including data and transaction management, high availability, performance, backup and recovery, enterprise replication, and Oracle Exadata. Loaiza joined the Oracle Database development organization in 1988, and has contributed to every Oracle Database release since Oracle Version 6. Loaiza holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Diane M. Bryant is vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group (DCSG) for Intel Corporation. Bryant leads the worldwide organization that generated over $10 billion in revenue in 2011. With its new product introductions in 2012, Intel now powers more than nine of every 10 servers sold worldwide.

In her current role, she manages Intel's P&L, strategy and product development for enterprise and cloud server infrastructure, high performance computing, storage, communications, networking and intelligent connected systems. Bryant grew her business 15 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2012, and is laying the foundation to drive continued growth by expanding into new product lines for networking, fabrics, storage and communications for the datacenter.

Previously, Bryant was corporate vice president and chief information officer of Intel Corporation. She was responsible for the corporate-wide information technology solutions and services that enabled Intel's business strategies for growth and efficiency.

Bryant received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from U.C. Davis in 1985 and joined Intel the same year. She attended the Stanford Executive Program and holds four U.S. patents.

Mark Hurd is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors. He joined Oracle in 2010, bringing more than 30 years of technology industry leadership, computer hardware expertise, and executive management experience to his role with the company. As President, Mr. Hurd oversees the corporate direction and strategy for Oracle's global field operations, including marketing, sales, consulting, alliances and channels, and support. He focuses on strategy, leadership, innovation, and customers. Says Mr. Hurd, "It's our job as a company to help our customers save money and innovate." MarkHurd/Oracle/President

Before joining Oracle, Mr. Hurd served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of HP, where his focus on customers, innovation, improved operational efficiency and execution led to significant company growth. Prior to that, he spent 25 years at NCR Corporation, where he held a variety of management, operations, sales, and marketing roles, ultimately serving as the company's Chief Executive Officer and President and leading a successful effort to improve operational efficiency, strengthen the product line, and drive growth.

Mr. Hurd was listed as one of Forbes' Market's Best Managers for 2009. In 2007, Mr. Hurd was named one of Fortune Magazine's 25 Most Powerful People in Business. He was recognized multiple times by Business 2.0 magazine as one of the 50 Who Matter Now and by Barron's in its Best CEOs lists. The San Francisco Chronicle honored him as the 2008 CEO of the Year. He appeared on CRN's 25 Most Influential Executives list in three separate years and was twice one of their Top 25 Executives.

Mr. Hurd earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1979 from Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, which he attended on a tennis scholarship. He continues to show his passion for tennis, supporting Baylor's national championship tennis program through philanthropic donations to upgrade and renovate facilities in the Hurd Tennis Building, which is part of the Hurd Tennis Center. He also supports the Baylor Bear Foundation and the Men's Tennis Excellence Fund.

Since joining Oracle, Mr. Hurd has worked to share Oracle's strategy and vision with customers, partners, shareholders, and investors. "Our strategy is complete stack, open, best-of-breed at every single layer of the architecture," he says. "We vertically integrate those best-of-breed pieces for extreme performance and total-cost-of-ownership benefit to give you differentiation. Our products are designed to be the best technology at every single layer of the stack, and then be vertically integrated. We want to give customers choices for how they access that technology—on premises, building a private cloud, using a public cloud, or a hybrid cloud combination. It's your choice how you get access to all of this technology."

As one of the world's largest enterprise technology companies, Oracle has more than 380,000 customers in 145 countries and annual revenues of $35.6 billion. The company engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in customer data centers—from servers and storage, to database and middleware, through applications. Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is engineered to work together as a single system. Oracle's industry-leading on-premises and cloud-based solutions give customers complete deployment flexibility and unmatched benefits, including unbreakable security, high availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership. The company has an active mergers and acquisitions program, with more than 80 in the past six years, including the industry-transforming acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Mr. Hurd's leadership in managing past acquisition integrations has enabled him to take a significant role in Oracle's acquisition strategy. He is also responsible for Oracle's global business units for industries, which build products for specific industries such as telecommunications, financial services, health sciences, retail, utilities, and public sector enterprises. Says Mr. Hurd, "This industry focus is an important strategy for us. We get deeper into these industry verticals because they solve our customers' most difficult problems, which are very industry- and business-specific."

A renowned best-selling author, Michael Lewis is also a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Slate, and Bloomberg.

His latest book, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (2011), based on articles Lewis wrote for Vanity Fair regarding the global debt crisis in Greece, Iceland, and Germany, captures the nonsensical madness that spread across both sides of the Atlantic during the last decade, as individuals, institutions, and entire nations mindlessly embraced instant gratification over long-term planning.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010), is a darkly humorous account of how the event that was considered impossible—the free fall of the American economy—finally occurred. He proves that truth really is stranger than fiction with a razor-sharp analysis of the heroes and villains that drove America’s economy overboard.

Lewis first made a name for himself in 1989 with the chart-topping Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street, an inside look at his career as a bond trader that best-selling author Tom Wolfe called “the funniest book on Wall Street I’ve ever read,” and earned Lewis the label of “America’s poet laureate of capital” from The Los Angeles Times. Liar’s Poker spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list and remains one of the signature books of the 1980s.

Lewis traversed the 1980s’ get-rich-quick jungle with The Money Culture (1992); chronicled the 1996 presidential campaign in Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House; crafted a 20-week New York Times best-seller in 2001 with The New, New Thing (“The book that does for Silicon Valley what Liar’s Poker did for Wall Street.”); and explored the internet boom in Next: The Future Just Happened (2002).

Lewis’ 2003 best-seller Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of a Major League Baseball franchise. This New York Times best-seller details the effect that an innovative personnel approach has had in allowing the small-budget Oakland Athletics to consistently rank among baseball’s best. Moneyball became a major motion picture in 2011 starring Brad Pitt and holds the record for the largest opening weekend for a baseball movie ever.

In 2006, Lewis took his second dive into the world of professional sports with The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. He delves into the substructure of football and tells the inspirational true story of Baltimore Raven Michael Oher. The 2009 film adaptation of The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, and Kathy Bates, broke the box office record for the biggest opening weekend of a sports film in history.

Lewis’ 2009 release Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood is a compilation of stories he wrote for his column “Dad Again” in Slate, detailing the parenting realities thrust upon him—not always happily, but often hilariously—by the births of his three children.

A native of New Orleans, Michael Lewis graduated from Princeton University with a degree in art history and earned a master’s degree at The London School of Economics. Prior to his career as an author, he worked with Salomon Brothers on Wall Street and in London. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Tabitha Soren and their three children.

Robert K. Weiler is the Executive Vice President of Oracle's Global Business Units. Previously he was Chairman and CEO of Phase Forward, a leading provider of integrated data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety. Weiler has more than 30 years of technology-industry leadership experience, including his previous tenure as Giga Information Group's Chairman, President and CEO. Earlier in his career, Weiler served as President and CEO of Eastman Software (formerly Wang Software), as well as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, for Lotus Development Corporation, where he was instrumental in expanding the company's Lotus Notes business.

Weiler currently serves on the board of SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), and he previously served on the boards of the directors of the Waterville Valley Company, Saint Anselm's College, Corporate Software, Distributed Management Systems, Cullinet Software, Interleaf, DataLogix, and Giga Information Group. Weiler received a B.A. from Saint Anselm's College, where he additionally received an honorary doctorate in 2000. He received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010 Award in the Healthcare IT category in New England. In 2006, he was named to the prestigious PharmaVOICE 100 list, and he was also named 2006 CEO of the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, an award that honors individuals who best exemplify leadership and excellence in business and technology. Subsequent to this award, Weiler was invited to become a trustee of the Council.