Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) announced the appointment of Diane Greene, co-founder and president of VMware, Inc. and executive vice president and officer of EMC Corp., to its Board of Directors, effective Aug. 15. Greene's appointment to a new position on the board builds on the strength of the team and brings the number of members of Intuit's board to 10.
Greene, 51, joined EMC through the acquisition of VMware in January 2004. VMware operates as an independent subsidiary and is the global leader in software for virtualized desktops, servers, storage and networking. Under Greene's leadership for the past eight years, VMware created the market for mainstream virtualization and definitively leads the virtualization software industry today. VMware has a $630 million annualized run-rate; the company's last quarter's year-over-year growth was 73 percent.
"Diane Greene is a stand-out technologist with an outstanding business track record. Her abilities and insights will be of great value to our board," said Intuit Chairman Bill Campbell. "Her pragmatic, hands-on executive style combined with her entrepreneurial approach to development will help Intuit stay at the forefront of its customer-driven focus on innovation. In addition, her deep technical skills, her attention to strategy and her intense focus on partnerships will help Intuit as it continues to broaden its business strategy."
Before co-founding and leading VMware, Greene held technical leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, Tandem, and Sybase and was chief executive officer of VXtreme. Greene's degrees include mechanical engineering, naval architecture and computer science from the University of Vermont, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California Berkeley, respectively.
