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- Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle, died on Friday.
- The 62-year-old chief executive had been on medical leave from the company since September.
- Before joining Oracle, Hurd was the chairman, CEO, and president at Hewlett-Packard. He resigned in 2010 amid allegations of sexual harassment surfaced against him. He was widely credited with the company's dominance in computing hardware during his tenure.
- Hurd began his career at NCR Corporation, where he worked for 25 years and eventually rose to occupy the CEO chair.
- Here's a look back at the life and career of Mark Hurd.
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Mark Hurd, one of Oracle's two CEOs, died on Friday at age 62.
Hurd led the database giant with Safra Catz since 2014, though he had announced a medical leave of absence in September. He and Catz had been hired by then-CEO Larry Ellison as co-presidents of Oracle in 2010, before taking over as joint CEOs when Ellison stepped aside.
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Hurd spent most of his career at NCR Corporation, an enterprise technology company specializing in point-of-sale systems and ATM machines. After 25 years, Hurd had risen to the chief executive role before moving over to run computing giant Hewlett-Packard. He was widely credited with making HP into the dominant player in hardware computing during his tenure, a trait that Ellison highly valued when deciding to recruit Hurd to Oracle in 2010.
At Oracle, he was known for spearheading its push into the cloud, playing a major role in its growth.
Here's a look back at the life and career of Mark Hurd:
Mark Hurd was born on January 1, 1957, in Manhattan, New York.ReutersSource: Bloomberg
He attended Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School, in Miami, Florida. He graduated in 1975.Daniel Korzeniewski/Shutterstock
Source: Archdiocese of Miami
He attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, on a tennis scholarship (where he later had a tennis center named after him). He graduated with a degree in business administration in 1979.Baylor
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
After graduation, Hurd became a junior salesman at NCR Corporation in San Antonio, Texas. The company specialized in point-of-sale systems and ATM machines.AP
Source: Fortune
Hurd worked for NCR for 25 years in a variety of roles, including management, operations, sales, and marketing.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Source: Fortune
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