VMware Has Had the Leaders it Needs

Last month, there was a lot of buzz about whether #VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger was going to be leaving after the #Dell acquisition of VMware parent company #EMC was complete. Keith Ward, editor of Virtualization Review,wrote an article about it in which he challenged the legitimacy of the rumor. This got me thinking about VMware's leadership history and how it's evolved over the years.

The Adventurer: Diane Greene
Diane Greene was one of the founders of VMware and CEO from its inception in 1998 until 2008. She is now senior vice president for Google's cloud businesses and sits on Google's board of directors. At 19, Greene organized the first Windsurfing World Championship. That same year she also earned her bachelor's in mechanical engineering from the University of Vermont. She then earned a master's degree from MIT in naval architecture. When she was 33, she earned a second master's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.  

Her next adventure was as the computer expert on a treasure hunt to find a sunken Spanish galleon off Saipan in the western Pacific Ocean. When she was 42, she founded her first technology company, a streaming-media startup called Vxtreme. It was sold to Microsoft in 1997 for about $75 million.

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