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.

Mark V. Hurd is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors. He joined Oracle in 2010. Before joining Oracle, Mr. Hurd served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Hewlett-Packard. Prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer and President of NCR Corporation.

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, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation. Tucci has been EMC's Chairman since January 2006 and President 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.

With revenues of $17 billion in 2010 and approximately 48,500 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. In 2011, EMC's market capitalization placed it among the 10 most valuable information technology product companies in the world. Tucci 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 to what is now the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of best-of-breed information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies and solutions that enable organizations to implement 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. Today, EMC operates with a balanced product portfolio in which software and services generate more than 50% of its annual revenues.

In recent years, Tucci has overseen the most aggressive new-product introduction cycles in the company's history, led EMC into multi-platform open software, expanded the company's marketplace beyond the enterprise to commercial and small-medium businesses, broadened the company's industry alliances, and established new selling, partnership and distribution channels.

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. Over this period, he 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 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 in March 2011.

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.

Michael Dell is the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Dell, the company he founded with $1000 in 1984 at age 19. Notably quoted as saying that "technology is about enabling human potential," Michael's vision of how technology should be designed, manufactured and sold forever changed the IT industry. In 1992, Michael became the youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500.

Today, Dell Inc. is comprised of more than 100,000 team members who serve the IT needs of global corporations, small and medium businesses, governments, healthcare providers, education institutions and home computing users. From PCs and smartphones to the infrastructure and services that power the world's most complex data centers and cloud computing environments, Dell's broad range of IT services and solutions has helped millions of customers around the world achieve the outcomes that are most important to them.

In 1998, Michael formed MSD Capital and in 1999 he and his wife established the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to provide philanthropic support to a variety of global causes.

Michael 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. He also serves on the Technology CEO Council and the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India and is a board member-elect of Catalyst.

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 Unbreakable Linux, Virtualization, MySQL, and Open Office. Mr. Screven also leads company-wide strategic initiatives including Standards Management and Security.

Steve Miranda is senior vice president of Fusion application development for Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for development of Financials, HR and Payroll, Procurement, CPM, Projects, CRM, SCM, and the functional architecture group.

Mr. Miranda has been with Oracle since 1992, holding a variety of leadership positions within the development organization. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Miranda worked at GE Aerospace.

Mr. Miranda holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computational Sciences from Stanford University.

John Chambers, chairman and chief executive officer of Cisco, has helped grow the company from $70 million when he joined the company in January 1991, to $1.2 billion when he assumed the role of CEO, to its current run rate of more than $40 billion. In November 2006 Chambers was named Chairman of the Board, in addition to his CEO role.

Chambers has received numerous awards for his leadership over the past 16 years at the helm of Cisco, including Time Magazine's "100 most influential people," one of Barron's "World's Best CEOs," the "Best Boss in America" by 20/20, one of BusinessWeek's "Top 25 Executives Worldwide," and "CEO of the Year" by Chief Executive Magazine.

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.

S. D. Shibulal (Shibu) is the Co-founder, Member of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Infosys. Shibu also serves as the Chairman of the boards of five of its subsidiaries, including Infosys Consulting and Infosys China.

Prior to becoming the CEO and Managing Director, Shibu served as the Chief Operating Officer between June 22, 2007 and August 20, 2011. Earlier, Shibu held a number of senior leadership roles including: Head of Worldwide Sales and Customer Delivery, Worldwide Head of Customer Delivery, and Head of Infosys Manufacturing and Distribution and Internet Consulting practice.

As a co-founder of the company, he was instrumental in the development of Infosys’ Global Delivery Model, which established a new standard for the delivery of outsourced IT services and helped set the stage for the company’s evolution into a leading multinational business consulting and IT services provider.

As the Chief Executive Officer, Shibu is focused on strengthening strategic partnerships with clients, increasing client relevance and evolving the company’s business model towards achieving Infosys’ aspirations of becoming the next generation global consulting and IT services corporation.

Shibu is a member of the Board of Trustees, the International Advisory Board and the Metropolitan College Dean’s Advisory Board of Boston University. He is also a member of the International Board of Foundation, Globethics.net, the Seoul International Business Advisory Council (SIBAC), and the Global Corporate Governance Forum’s Private Sector Advisory Group.

Shibu holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Boston University and a master’s degree in Physics from the University of Kerala.