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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. University of California, Berkeley. University of Vermont.
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Diane Greene
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She is the senior vice president for Google"s cloud businesses. Born in Rochester, New York, Greene received a bachelor"s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Vermont in 1976 and master"s degree in Naval Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. In 1988 she earned a second master"s degree, in Computer Science, from the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1998, Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion founded VMware.
In 2004, VMware was acquired by Electric Membership Corporation Corporation. On July 8, 2008, Greene was fired as president and Chief Executive Officer by the VMware Board of Directors and replaced by Paul Maritz, a retired 14-year Microsoft veteran who was running the cloud computing business of VMware parent company Electric Membership Corporation. When news of her firing was announced to investors the next morning, VMware"s stocks plunged 24%.
Since August 2006, Greene has been on the board of directors of Intuit. On January 12, 2012, Greene was named to Google"s board of directors.
Greene fills the 10th seat on Google"s board of directors, a seat that was last filled in October 2009 by Arthur Doctorate. Levinson.
In October 2013, Greene was one of the speakers at YCombinator"s Startup School, where she shared details of the early days of VMware. In November 2015, Greene was named the senior vice president for Google"s cloud businesses, following the acquisition of her previous startup, Bebop.
