David Duffield
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David Duffield (born 1941) is a U.S. businessman in the software industry. He is best known as the co-founder and former chairman of PeopleSoft. In recent years he has consistently been on the Forbes World's Richest People list. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell University and recently gave Cornell a large donation for a nanotechnology research building named Duffield Hall in his honor.
Dave Duffield founded 'PeopleSoft' in 1987 and served as the company’s CEO and board chairman. He was responsible for the company’s vision, product and market direction, and commitment to customer service. In addition, he inspired the company’s unique culture by promoting core values that focused on people, innovation, integrity and fun. PeopleSoft grew to be the world’s second-largest application software company before being acquired by Oracle in January 2005.
Prior to PeopleSoft, Mr. 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.
Recently he started a new venture [1]that "will provide a revolutionary application platform and the next generation of business applications to drive your enterprise's performance. Our applications will be dramatically easy to use, be responsive to your organization’s changing needs and will significantly lower your total cost of ownership." This according to the Workday home page.
As admired as Dave Duffield is for his accomplishments in the software industry, he is every bit as renowned for his philanthropic activities on behalf of animals.
