Background

Ethnicity: He is one quarter Indian and one quarter Welsh on his mother's side, and one quarter Hungarian, and one quarter Russian on his father's side

Schwartz, Jonathan Ian was born on October 20, 1965.

Education

Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1983—1984. Bachelor of Science in Economics & Mathematics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1986.

Career

Consultant McKinsey & Company, Inc., 1987—1989. Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer Lighthouse Design (acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc.), 1989—1996. Director investment group, development tools & Java product marketing organization Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, California, vice president venture & strategic investments, 1999—2000, senior vice president corporation strategy & planning, 2000—2002, executive vice president software group, 2002—2004, president, chief operating officer, 2004—2006, president, Chief Executive Officer, 2006—2010.

Board directors Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2006—2010.

Achievements

• As Chief Executive Officer of Sun, Schwartz was known as one of the few Fortune 500 Chief Executive Officer's to use a blog for public communications. He was recognized for his efforts to bring greater transparency into the corporate world to meet Regulation Fair Disclosure.