Jonathan I. Schwartz

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Jonathan Schwartz speaking at the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA
Jonathan Schwartz speaking at the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA

For other people with the same name, see Jonathan Schwartz.

Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is the current President and CEO of Sun Microsystems.

Schwartz attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated in 1983. He spent freshman year of college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1983-1984, and then transferred to Wesleyan University, where he studied Economics and Mathematics.

Schwartz started his career in 1987 at McKinsey & Company in New York City. In 1989, Schwartz left McKinsey and moved to Chevy Chase, Maryland, where he was a co-founder of Lighthouse Design. In the early 1990s, Lighthouse Design moved to San Mateo, California. Eventually, Schwartz became chief executive officer of Lighthouse.

In 1996, Lighthouse Design was acquired by Sun Microsystems.[1] Schwartz became the director of product marketing for JavaSoft in 1997, and then transitioned through a series of 5 vice president positions. In 2004, Schwartz was promoted to president and chief operating officer of Sun.[2] On April 24, 2006, he replaced Scott McNealy as CEO.

Schwartz regularly promotes his view that the Information Age has given way to a "Participation Age," in which people create news, ideas, and entertainment as well as consuming them.

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[edit] Trivia

  • He is "one quarter (Asian) Indian, one quarter Welsh (on my Mother's side), one quarter Hungarian, and one quarter Russian (Father's side)."[3]

[edit] References

^  Kalin, Sari (June 1996). "PC Expo: Sun buys object developer". Accessed on August 25, 2005.

^  Forbes.com profile for Jonathan Schwartz. Accessed on August 25, 2005.

^  Five Things, Jonathan's Blog.

[edit] Articles

  • Sun Promotes Alternate View - Techworld.com. April 11, 2005. Article where Schwartz felt the GPL was being used "as a tool allowing United States businesses to pillage developing countries of their intellectual property.

[edit] External links

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