Diane Greene

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Diane B. Greene (* 1955 in Rochester , New York ) is an American entrepreneur and engineer. She and her husband Mendel Rosenblum were one of the founders of VMware and its CEO from 1998 to 2000 and is on the supervisory board of Google .

Life

Greene graduated from the University of Vermont with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1976 and a master's degree in naval architecture from MIT in 1978. In 1988, she earned a second master's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley . She was an engineer at Tandem Computers , Hewlett-Packard, and Sybase . She was the founder and CEO of Vxtreme, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 .

In 1998, Greene, Rosenblum, Scott Devine , Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion founded VMware, a software simulation program company, and Greene has been its CEO since its inception. In December 2003 the company was acquired by EMC Corporation (of which Greene became Executive Vice President) and Greene was unexpectedly fired as President and CEO on July 8, 2008 (when revenues fell to an annual growth of just under 50 percent) and by the Ex-Microsoft manager Paul Maritz replaced. The news of her dismissal caused the share price to collapse by around a quarter and with her three other executives left the company out of solidarity, including her husband Mendel Rosenblum.

Greene has been a member of the board of directors at Intuit , a financial software company, since August 2006 , and has been a member of the board of Google since 2012. In 2013 she founded the startup Datrium Storage, which is supposed to compete with VMware / EMC.

She is married to the computer scientist Mendel Rosenblum, whom she met in Berkeley and with whom she has two children. In 2011, Greene and her husband Mendel Rosenblum donated $ 3 million to the Marvin Rosenblum Professorship in Mathematics at the University of Virginia in honor of Rosenblum's father, Marvin Rosenblum, who taught at the university for 45 years.

In her youth she was a successful sailor and windsurfer (US National Double handed Dinghy Champion for women in 1976 and three-time winner of the San Francisco Classic for women, a long-distance windsurfing race). She was one of the organizers of the first windsurfing world championship in 1974 and earlier also designed windsurfing equipment in Hawaii.

She is a member of the MIT Corporation. In 2018 she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Graeme Burton, Diane Greene re-emerges as founder of Datrium Storage - taking aim at EMC, July 16, 2013
  2. ↑ University of Virginia on the Foundation of the Rosenblum Chair ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Greene, Diane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greene, Diane B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester (New York)