Mark Hurd
Mark Vincent Hurd was an American businessman who was CEO of Oracle Corporation. Prior to that, he was CEO of NCR Corporation until 2005, then served as chairman, chief executive officer and president of Hewlett-Packard until 2010. He also served on the board of directors of Globality and a member of the Technology CEO Council and board of directors of News Corporation until 2010.
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- Educated at
- University of Toronto
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"Remember what’s bigger, to me, about the cloud isn’t so much the technology. It’s just as much about the business model. It’s just about what the customer needs to do to enable their business."
"We should not get scared about innovation. It makes us more efficient and frees up capital for our customers to reinvest in other things."
"My days at Baylor were not too different from my days as part of a company. I had to manage my time. I had to divide it into certain pieces so that I’d get as much done as I possibly could. And I had …"
"AI and its offshoot, machine learning, will be a foundational tool for creating social good as well as business success."
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