SAFRA CATZ
TOP 10 – WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY
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SAFRA CATZ
TITLE: CEO COMPANY: ORACLE INDUSTRY: SOFTWARE AND CLOUD COMPUTING
Safra has led Oracle Corporation as CEO since 2014, initially sharing the role with Mark Hurd until becoming sole CEO in 2019. Joining Oracle in 1999, she rose rapidly from SVP to VP and then again to CFO, leveraging her dual expertise in finance and law, which she studied at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania Law School respectively. Safra has been instrumental in driving Oracle’ s aggressive acquisition strategy,
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including the landmark US $ 10bn acquisition of PeopleSoft in 2005 and the US $ 28bn acquisition of Cerner in 2021 – the largest in Oracle’ s history – all while driving Oracle’ s cloud-first transformation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure emerged in 2016 under her leadership, positioning the company against competitors through strategic SaaS acquisitions like NetSuite.
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40 May 2025