Diane Greene

Diane B. Greene (born June 9, 1955) [2] is an American technology entrepreneur and investor.[3] Greene was a founder and the CEO of VMware from 1998 until 2008. She served as the CEO of Google's cloud businesses from 2015 until early 2019.[4][5] Between 2012 and 2019, she was an Alphabet board of directors member.

Diane Greene
Born (1955-06-09) June 9, 1955
Rochester, New York, U.S.
Education
Occupation
  • Supervisory Board member of SAP
  • Board Member of Stripe
Known forFounding VMware, leadership at Google
Spouse(s)Mendel Rosenblum
Children2[1]

Early life and education

Born in Rochester, New York to an engineer and a teacher,[6] Greene received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Vermont in 1976[7] and 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.[8]

Career

At the age of 19, Greene organized the first Windsurfing World Championship and won the national women's dinghy championship in 1976.[6] She worked as an engineer and manager at Sybase, Tandem Computers, and Silicon Graphics, and then some start-up companies.[9]

In 1998, Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion founded VMware.[10] In 2004, VMware was acquired by EMC Corporation.[11] On July 8, 2008, Greene was fired as president and CEO by the VMware board of directors and replaced by Paul Maritz, a retired 14-year Microsoft veteran who was running the cloud computing business of VMware parent company EMC.[12][9] In August 2006, Greene joined the board of directors of Intuit.

In October 2013, Greene was one of the speakers at YCombinator's Startup School,[13] where she shared details of the early days of VMware. Greene was also a judge for the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2013.

Google

On January 12, 2012, Greene was appointed to the Google board of directors.[14] Greene filled the 10th seat on Google's board of directors, a seat that was last filled in October 2009 by Arthur D. Levinson.[15]

In November 2015, Greene was named the senior vice president for Google's cloud businesses, following the acquisition of her startup, Bebop.[16]

In 2017, she featured as a protagonist of (Linkedin co-founder) Reid Hoffman's "Masters of Scale" podcast series, among other successful businesspeople such as Mark Zuckerberg, John Elkann, and Brian Chesky. In this interview, she discussed the strategy VMware adopted in order to scale.[17]

On February 8, 2018, Greene was elected as a member of US National Academy of Engineering.[18]

Greene was succeeded as CEO of Google Cloud by Thomas Kurian in early 2019.[19][5] She retained a seat on the board of Alphabet.[20][21]

On April 30, 2019, Alphabet announced that Diane Greene wouldn't be seeking re-election to the Board at the expiration of her term on June 19, 2019.[22]

Stripe

In January 2019, Greene joined the board of directors of Stripe.

Wix

In February 2020, Greene joined the board of directors of Wix.com.[23]

Awards
  • 2017 Abie Award for Technical Leadership from AnitaB.org.[24][25]
  • 2018 Forbes' America's Top 50 Women In Tech.[26]

Personal life

Greene met her husband, Mendel Rosenblum, while at Berkeley.[27] Greene has two children.[28] In 2011, Greene along with Rosenblum gave $3 million to create the Marvin Rosenblum Professorship in Mathematics in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences in honor of Mendel's father, Marvin Rosenblum, who taught at the university for 45 years.[29]

Greene is also an expert crabber and sailor, having grown up doing both in Maryland.[30]

See also

References
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  2. Diane Greene bio in Mercury News
  3. Williams, Alex (2012-08-23). "Data Center Analytics Startup CloudPhysics Raises $2.5 Million From Mayfield Partners, VMware Co-Founders". TechCrunch.
  4. "Transitioning Google Cloud after three great years". Google. 2018-11-16.
  5. "New Google cloud boss Thomas Kurian warns, 'You will see us competing much more aggressively'". CNBC. 2019-02-12.
  6. Calhoun, Lisa (23 November 2015). "47 Surprising Facts About Google's New Cloud Captain, Diane Greene". Inc.com.
  7. "The Wall Street Journal List - One of the Journal's 50". Vermont Quarterly. University of Vermont. September 2008. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
  8. Lashinsky, Adam (2007-10-02). "Full speed ahead". Fortune Magazine. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
  9. Jessica Shambora (July 9, 2008). "Adventures in entrepreneurship: CEO Diane Greene departs VMware". Fortune. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
  10. "VMware Leadership".
  11. "News Releases - United States". VMware. Archived from the original on 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  12. Savitz, Eric (2008-07-08). "VMware ousts CEO Diane Greene; cuts '08 guidance". Barron’s. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
  13. "Diane Greene at Startup School 2013". Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  14. "Google appoints Diane B. Greene to its Board of Directors". Google. January 12, 2012.
  15. "Ex-VMware CEO Diane Greene Joins Google Board". Retrieved 2013-10-24.
  16. "Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business". New York Times. November 19, 2015.
  17. "Master of Scale - Diane Greene".
  18. "National Academy of Engineering Elects 83 Members and 16 Foreign Members". NAE Website. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  19. Jordan Novet (November 16, 2018). "Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene is out, to be replaced by former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian". CNBC.
  20. "Who is the new Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian?". Computer World.
  21. Jennifer Elias (November 19, 2018). "Executive tensions led to Google Cloud chief departure, report says". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
  22. "Alphabet Appoints Robin L. Washington to its Board of Directors". Alphabet Investor Relations. 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  23. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/diane-greene-joins-the-wix-board-of-directors-301007825.html
  24. "Diane Greene - AnitaB.org". anitab.org. 1 August 2017.
  25. "Abie Awards - AnitaB.org". anitab.org.
  26. "Diane Greene". Forbes.
  27. "In 1988 she picked up a second master's, in computer science, at the University of California, Berkeley, where she met Rosenblum. They have two children."Adam Lashinksky (2007-10-02). "50 Most Powerful Women in Business - Full speed ahead". CNN.
  28. Wray, Richard. "Software plumber stops companies leaking cash". The Guardian.
  29. "Gift Creates Endowed Professorship in Math Department". UVA Today, University of Virginia. October 18, 2013.
  30. "Diane Green: Look sideways | Masters of Scale podcast". WaitWhat. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
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