Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison is the Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Oracle.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026 by the ATDb Editorial Team · Connections updated Oct 23, 2026
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Bio
Larry Ellison is the Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Oracle. Oracle is a tech giant that creates software for Fortune 500 companies around the world, with a significant presence in cloud computing. Ellison has worked to redefine Oracle's enterprise-cloud business across both applications and infrastructure, sharing his vision for entirely new types of enterprise applications. In the area of sales and marketing automation, he disclosed plans for Oracle's second-generation sales-automation tool, which uses a recommendation engine to identify high-probability prospects from existing customer data and automatically initiates targeted advertising campaigns directed at those prospects, without requiring engagement with an outside ad agency. Ellison has argued that this kind of integrated advertising and sales capability is only achievable through a fully connected enterprise suite spanning sales, service, front office, back office, and human capital management. Source 1: derrick-app.com Source 2: theguardian.com Source 3: cloudwars.com
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Education
- Attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (did not graduate)
- Attended University of Chicago (did not graduate)