Safra Catz
Safra Ada Catz is the Executive at Oracle Corporation since April 1999. She was born December 1st 1961.
She has been a board member at Oracle Corporation since 2001. Since April 2011 she has been Co-President and Chief Financial Officer, reporting to founder/CEO Larry Ellison.
In 2009 she was ranked by Fortune as the 12th most powerful woman in business. In 2009 she was also ranked by Forbes as the 16th most powerful business-woman. According to an Equilar analysis published by Fortune, she was in 2011 the highest-paid woman among Fortune 1000 companies, receiving an estimated US$51,695,742 in total remuneration.
Catz earned a bachelor’s degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1986. She was a banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, joining in 1986; she became a Managing Director in 1997.
Catz joined Oracle Corporation in April 1999. Catz became a member of the company’s Board of Directors in October 2001 and President of Oracle Corporation in early 2004. She is credited for having driven Oracle’s 2005 efforts to acquire software rival PeopleSoft in a $10.3 billion takeover. Catz is also the company’s Chief Financial Officer, serving temporarily in that role from November 2005 to September 2008, and from April 2011 to the present. Mark Hurd joined her as Co-President in 2010.
