Oracle Hires HP’s Former Chief Mark Hurd as President

By Nathan Kirsch

Silicon Valley technology giant Oracle Corp announced that they have hired Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co who resigned amid a scandal, as president. Hurd, a close friend of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will replace Charles Phillips, who has resigned, Oracle said in a statement on Monday. Phillips was co-president alongside Safra Catz, who remains in her role.

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Mark did a brilliant job at HP and I expect hell do even better at Oracle, said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. There is no executive in the IT world with more relevant experience than Mark. Oracles future is engineering complete and integrated hardware and software systems for the enterprise. Mark pioneered the integration of hardware with software when Teradata was a part of NCR.

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