Paul Maritz

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Paul Maritz in 2009

Paul Maritz (* 1955 in Southern Rhodesia ) is a software developer and manager who is best known for his leading position at Microsoft .

Life

Maritz was born in 1955 in the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia. His family fled with him to South Africa as a child , where he completed his schooling and then studied at the Universities of Natal and Cape Town .

He then worked for the office equipment manufacturer Burroughs Corporation before he was employed as a scientific worker at the University of St Andrews in Scotland . In 1981 he took up a job as a software developer at Intel and moved to Silicon Valley .

In 1986 Microsoft successfully recruited him. He was considered the "third man" after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer at Microsoft. He was responsible for essentially all of Microsoft's desktop and server software, including the development of Windows 95 , Windows NT, and Internet Explorer . In September 2000, shortly after Windows Me was released , he resigned from his post at Microsoft.

From July 8, 2008 to September 1, 2012, Paul Maritz was CEO of the software company VMware .

In April 2013, he was named CEO of GoPivotal, Inc. (Pivotal), a company funded by General Electric (GE), EMC, and VMware, which he led until August 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Maritz to Retire After 14 Years at Microsoft ( Memento of March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
  2. ↑ Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz resigns
personal data
SURNAME Maritz, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Software developer and manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Southern Rhodesia