Before joining Liberty, Maffei was president and CFO at Oracle for six months in 2005.
His extensive experience includes previous executive positions at Oracle, Taleo, PeopleSoft and Price Waterhouse.
Tom learned to harness his natural aggression as a sales vice president at Oracle.
Still, lieutenants who covet the top job don't have the best track record at Oracle.
Mr. Hurd holds deep knowledge of H-P's operations that could prove useful at Oracle.
He had his epiphany in 1996, while working at Oracle, the world's second-largest software firm.
At Oracle, the overarching product strategy is to simplify IT, thereby allowing customers to unlock innovation.
LawPivot has also secured Dan Cooperman, former general counsel at Oracle and Apple, to its board of advisors.
Prior to joining SAP he spent 15 years at Oracle also working in channels for the SME market.
What was less of a selling point at Oracle OpenWorld this week: cost.
Hurd will be a co-president and director at Oracle, and perhaps have a chance to again demonstrate his cost-cutting prowess.
Oracle co-president and CFO Safra Catz is clearly a brilliant businessperson with a long record of achievement and success at Oracle.
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Last year, a scorned mistress bought ad space in Times Square to shame her married ex, an executive at Oracle.
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And in LeBrun and Lazerow, they have two established and admired social media luminaries whose personal brands eclipse anyone at Oracle.
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If he is content to cede the alpha male role to Ellison, always a prerequisite at Oracle, he ought to do fine.
He had run marketing at Oracle but clashed with Ellison and quit under pressure in 1994, suing the company and later settling.
The analyst focused on how Hurd has already made a decisive impact at Oracle by focusing on sales force productivity and execution.
At Oracle, Ray served senior product management roles in the E-Business Suite.
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Prior to Stanford she had earned a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and worked at Oracle(ORCL), Kosmix, and Facebook.
He might also like to be CEO again completely out of the shadow of a John Malone or Larry Ellison at Oracle (ORCL).
Ellison would have fired Phillips years ago if this mistress thing got in the way of his getting the job done at Oracle.
Vinny Smith started out at Oracle, the baby of billionaire Larry Ellison, working in sales under Tom Siebel, also now a billionaire.
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The drive on cost reduction, along with Mr Ellison's previously unsuspected appetite for detail and process, astounded everybody at Oracle, not least Mr Lane.
Exactly one week ago in this space, I posed this headline in a question: Will Marc Benioff Upstage Larry Ellison (Again) at Oracle OpenWorld?
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He was a Morgan Stanley analyst and signed on at Oracle in 2003 and hasn't yet moved his wife and son to Silicon Valley from Manhattan.
"This took a lot of software development and a lot of business development, " says Chief Executive Doug Renert , who formerly headed application sales at Oracle.
"We used to joke that Larry is brilliant but time-dyslexic, " says Mark Porter, who worked at Oracle in the 1990s on video-on-demand technology that never debuted.
Holding the position of Head of CRM On Demand Product Management for Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Oracle, helping drive business development and growth.
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