Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd dies at 62Quote:
Hurd began his career in 1980 as a salesman for National Cash Register Corp. (now NCR), then rose through the ranks to the CEO post. In 2005, he was hired away as CEO by Hewlett-Packard Co., then the world's biggest personal-computer maker. He resigned from HP when it determined he violated company standards by filing inaccurate expense reports to conceal a personal relationship with a contractor.
Hurd joined Oracle as a co-president in 2010. During his tenure there, Hurd produced solid revenue and profits as the Redwood City, Calif.-based company's stock price hit a historic high in 2019. He was also a key driver in Oracle's turn from an old model of licensing software toward the use of cloud computing, a burgeoning business dominated by rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
Was curious what Mark Hurd had done that would lead to it being considered a big loss for the tech world. Not seeing it. Seems like he was decent at business and was an effective enough CEO. So he made some people money. But he's not a Jobs, Page, Brin, or Zuckerberg. He was not really a creator, which is fine.
And for the purposes of an A&M message board, he was a Baylor trustee during the Art Briles fiasco. He hadn't been on the board very long, so I wouldn't call him a leader there but he certainly was part of the expert stonewalling of the Title IX investigations, the revolving door of Baylor's Title IX coordinators, and the CYA Pepper Hamilton report.