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Diane Greene
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| Born | June 9, 1955 Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.
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| Education | University of Vermont (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MArch) University of California, Berkeley (MS) |
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| Known for | Co-founding VMware, leadership at Google |
| Spouse(s) | Mendel Rosenblum |
| Children | 2 |
Diane B. Greene, born on June 9, 1955, is an American business leader and founder in the technology world. She started her career designing ships before moving into tech. Diane Greene is famous for co-founding a company called VMware. She also led the cloud computing part of Google.
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Early Life and Education
Diane Greene was born in Annapolis, Maryland. Her dad was an engineer and her mom was a teacher. She went to the University of Vermont and earned a degree in mechanical engineering in 1976. Later, in 1978, she got another degree from MIT in naval architecture, which is about designing ships.
In 1987, she earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. This is where she met her future husband, Mendel Rosenblum. He would later help her start VMware.
Career Highlights
When she was 19, Diane Greene organized the first Windsurfing World Championship. She also won a national championship in sailing in 1976. Early in her career, she designed large ships and structures for the ocean. She also managed engineering for a company called Windsurfing International.
After getting her computer science degree, she started working in the tech industry. She was an engineer and manager at companies like Sybase and Silicon Graphics. She also co-founded a company called VXtreme. Microsoft later bought VXtreme, and its technology became part of Microsoft's movie player.
Founding VMware
In 1998, Diane Greene and four others, including her husband Mendel Rosenblum, started a company called VMware. As the CEO, Diane Greene helped VMware create a new way for computers to work. This new way is called virtualization.
Virtualization lets one computer act like many different computers. It allows you to run several operating systems, like Windows and Linux, on the same machine at the same time. This helps businesses use their computers more efficiently and save energy. Today, virtualization is used everywhere to run computer servers.
In 2004, a company called EMC Corporation bought VMware for $635 million. Diane Greene stayed on as CEO. VMware continued to grow, earning billions of dollars. In 2007, VMware became a public company, which means its shares could be bought and sold by anyone. This was a very big event in the tech world that year. In 2008, Diane Greene left her role as CEO of VMware.
Diane Greene has shared her experiences about starting and growing VMware. She has spoken at places like Stanford University and on podcasts.
Leading Google Cloud
On January 12, 2012, Diane Greene joined the board of directors at Google. A board of directors helps guide a company's big decisions.
In November 2015, Diane Greene became the CEO of Google Cloud. Google Cloud is Google's business that provides computer services over the internet to other companies. She took on this role after Google bought her startup company, Bebop.
As CEO, Diane Greene built Google Cloud into a major part of Google's business. When she stepped down in January 2019, Google Cloud was earning billions of dollars each year. She remained on the board of Google's parent company, Alphabet, until June 2019.
Board Roles
Diane Greene has served on the boards of many important companies. These include Alphabet (Google's parent company), SAP, Stripe, and A.P. Moller - Maersk. In 2020, she became the chair of the board of directors at MIT, one of the world's top universities.
Awards and Recognition
Diane Greene has received many awards for her work:
- In 2007, Fortune magazine named her one of America's 50 Most Powerful Women.
- In 2011, she and Mendel Rosenblum received an award for creating the virtualization platform at VMware.
- In 2017, Bloomberg listed her as one of the world's 50 most influential people.
- Also in 2017, she received an award for her technical leadership from the Anita Borg Institute. They called her "one of the most iconic technology leaders of the last 20 years."
- The University of Vermont gave her an honorary science degree in 2017.
- In 2018, Forbes magazine named her one of America's Top 50 Women in Tech.
- In 2018, she was chosen to be a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. This was for her work in making virtualization a major industry.
Personal Life
Diane Greene met her husband, Mendel Rosenblum, while they were studying at Berkeley. They have two children, a son and a daughter. They live in Stanford, California. Diane Greene also enjoys crabbing and sailing, activities she grew up doing in Maryland.
See also
In Spanish: Diane Greene para niños
- VMware
- EMC Corporation
- Alphabet
- Intuit
- SAP
- Stripe
- A.P. Moller - Maersk
- Wix.com
