David Duffield
David Duffield (born 1941) is an American businessman in the software industry. He is the co-founder and former chairman of PeopleSoft, the co-founder and co-CEO at Workday, Inc., and has been on the Forbes World's Richest People list.
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Early life[edit]
Duffield received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell University, and is the benefactor behind Duffield Hall,[1] a nanoscale science (or nanotechnology) and engineering facility at Cornell.
Career[edit]
Dave Duffield established two mainframe application software companies. He was CEO, chairman, and chief product architect at Integral Systems, the first company to offer DB2-based human resource and accounting systems. He also co-founded Information Associates, which specialized in applications for the higher education market. He began his career at IBM as a marketing representative and systems engineer.
Peoplesoft[edit]
Duffield founded PeopleSoft in 1987 and served as the company’s CEO and board chairman. PeopleSoft grew to be the world’s second-largest application software company before being acquired by Oracle in January 2005.[2]
Workday[edit]
In March 2005, Duffield and former PeopleSoft vice chair and head of product strategy, Aneel Bhusri, started Workday, a company[3] that provides financial management and human capital management software delivered in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The company is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif., and employed approximately 1,000 people in 2011,[4] with Duffield and Bhusri serving as co-CEOs at Workday. Duffield is also the company's chief customer advocate.[5]
Philanthropy[edit]
Duffield is also known for his philanthropic activities on behalf of animals. Dave Duffield and his wife, Cheryl, created Maddie's Fund[6] in 1999 to support the No-kill effort. Maddie's Fund is named for their Miniature Schnauzer, Maddie. The fund has an endowment of $300 million.
Personal life[edit]
He is married to Cheryl.
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.duffield.cornell.edu/
- ^ http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/13/technology/oracle_peoplesoft/
- ^ Workday - On-Demand Enterprise Business Services
- ^ http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2011/01/21/workday-steep-growth-curve-to-nearly.html
- ^ http://www.workday.com/company/leadership_team/dave_duffield.php
- ^ http://www.maddiesfund.org/
