Oracle appoints not one, but two, co-CEOs as Safra Catz leaves top job
Date:
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:32:00 +0000
Description:
Safra Catz steps down as Oracle CEO after 10 years, Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia elected to take over as co-CEOs.
FULL STORY ======================================================================Oracle says Safra Catz will leave her role as CEO, but stays as EVC on the Board
Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia appointed as co-CEOs Oracle is set for hyper-growth as raft of new deals approaches
Oracle has appointed two new co-CEOs after the cloud giant confirmed the departure of former leader Safra Catz.
Ex-Presidents Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia will take over as the new heads of the company, which looks set to profit from a host of major new deals .
A few years ago, Clay and Mike committed Oracle's Infrastructure and Applications businesses to AI it's paying off, Board Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison noted. They are both proven leaders, and I am looking forward to spending the coming years working side-by-side with them. Safra Catz makes
way for two co-CEOs
Catz will not be leaving Oracle, and will move over to the Board of Directors as Executive Vice Chair after a decade serving as CEO, saying that now the right moment to hand leadership into the next generation.
As part of the shakeup, Oracle confirmed a few other role changes, including Mark Huras appointment as President for Global Field Operations and Doug Kehrings promotion to Principal Financial Officer.
Ellison served as Oracles CEO from 1977 until Catzs appointment in 2014.
Oracle closed the 2014 calendar year with a share price of $38.19, but prices have climbed to $328.15 today under Catzs leadership.
Our combined strengths in AI, cloud infrastructure, horizontal applications and industry applications, will enable Oracle to deliver the latest AI capabilities to our customers, Magouyrk and Sicilia said in a joint
statement, alluding to hyper-growth and further business opportunities in the future.
Joining Oracle in 2014 from AWS as a Software Development Engineer, Magouyrk was responsible for OCI Gen2. Sicilia moved over to Oracle when the company acquired Primavera Systems in 2008, leading the development of AI-powered applications across healthcare, banking, communications, hospitality, retail and more.
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