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Safra Catz may no longer be Oracle’s CEO, but her fingerprints are all over one of the most remarkable transformations in enterprise tech history. As Executive Vice Chair of Oracle’s Board of Directors, her influence on the company she helped build into a global powerhouse is anything but ceremonial.
During her tenure as CEO, Catz was the operational force behind Oracle’s push into cloud infrastructure, data centers, and AI- ready computing—no small feat for a company whose legacy was built on database software. Her reputation for financial discipline and executing complex transformations without losing profitability, skills honed as Oracle’s CFO and President and before that in investment banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, gave her a rare combination of strategic vision and operational precision.
