Geoffrey William Squire

Dr. Geoffrey Squire serves as Director at Informatica. He serves as Executive Chairman at Kognitio. In addition to Board of Directors roles at several privately-held companies. He was also formerly the Chairman of a UK-based public company, The Innovation Group, a provider of business services to the global insurance community. Geoff has more than 45 years' experience in information technology. Early in his career, Geoff spent 10 years building data-oriented user systems prior to joining ICL where he held posts as customer support manager and project manager prior to his final appointment as worldwide marketing manager.In 1981 he introduced the Oracle database to the United Kingdom as the exclusive distributor. He subsequently joined the Oracle Corporation, where he became Chief Executive Officer of Oracle Europe and president of Oracle Worldwide Operations (a COO role), reporting to Larry Ellison. He was widely credited with that business' financial turnaround in 1990 and the building of the global IT powerhouse that Oracle became in that era. In 1994, he joined OpenVision, a systems management software company, as the President and CEO of the newly-formed international subsidiary. He became CEO of the parent company in 1995, and took the company public on NASDAQ in 1996. He executed the merger with VERITAS Corporation in 1997 and this combined entity grew to be a US $1 Billion dollar business. He remained as Vice Chairman there until the company merged with Symantec in 2005. A former president of the UK Computing Services & Software Association and the European Information Services Association, Squire also holds an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University.