Diane Greene

Diane Greene is a Stanford, California-based entrepreneur, executive, and investor. Greene is the chairman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of Bebop, founder of VXtreme, co-founder and former CEO of VMware, and former CEO of Google Cloud. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Vermont, a Master of Science degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Vermont.

Diane Greene was born in 1955 in Rochester, New York in, raised in Annapolis, Maryland, and began her career as a naval architect, as well as a world champion windsurfer. After earning her second master's degree in computer science, she transitioned to the tech industry and worked as an engineer and manager at Sybase, Tandem Computers, and Silicon Graphics. In 1997, Greene co-founded streaming-media startup VXtreme and served as CEO until the company's acquisition by Microsoft for $75 million. In 1998, Greene co-founded VMware, a provider of virtualization software, and served as CEO. VMware was acquired by EMC Corporation for $635 million in 2004, and Greene remained CEO of VMWare, which functioned as a subsidiary of EMC and went public with the largest tech IPO of 2007 with $19.1 billion valuation, until she was fired by the VMware board of directors and replaced by Paul Maritz in 2008. In 2012, Greene founded tech startup Bebop, which was acquired by Google. In 2012, Greene was appointed to the Google parent company Alphabet board of directors and in 2015, Greene was named CEO of Google Cloud, a position she held until 2018.

In 2020, Diane Greene was appointed chairman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has served on the board of directors of Alphabet, Google Cloud, Intuit, Khan Academy, SAP, Stripe, A.P. Moller Holding, and Wix.com.

In 2007, Diane Greene was named as one of America's 50 Most Powerful Women by Fortune. In 2017, Greene was listed on Bloomberg's 50 list of the world's most influential people and was recognized with an Abie Award for Technical Leadership from the Anita Borg Institute as "one of the most iconic technology leaders of the last 20 years." In 2018, Greene was named one of America's Top 50 Women in Tech by Forbes.

Diane Greene has invested in Unit21, Pilot, Xcalar, Xperiel, Clinkle, Cumulus Networks, CloudPhysics, Pure Storage, Unity Technologies, and Nimbula. Notable exits of Diane Greene include Unity Technologies, Rockmelt, Pure Storage, Cumulus Networks, CloudPhysics, and Cloudera.