Aneel Bhusri (born February 14, 1966) is an American business executive. He is the

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(CEO) of Workday. He is also a partner at

Greylock Partners Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $3.5 billion under management. The firm focuses on early-stage companies in the consumer, enterprise software and infrastructure as wel ...

and was a member of

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

's board of directors between 2014 and 2019. Bhusri has been a billionaire since 2014; as of 2021 he has a net worth of $3.1 billion.

Early life

Aneel Bhusri was born in

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on February 14, 1966. He was educated at Brown University, receiving a

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degree in electrical engineering. He has an

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from Stanford Graduate School of Business. His first job after college was as a corporate finance analyst at

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment management and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in more than 41 countries and more than 75,000 employees, the fir ...

Career

In 1993, Bhusri became the director of planning at

PeopleSoft PeopleSoft, Inc. is a company that provides human resource management systems (HRMS), Financial Management Solutions (FMS), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), and enterprise performance management (EPM) software ...

,Angela Mehta, "Venture Profile: Aneel Bhusri, Greylock"
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' retrieved October 20, 2014 then primarily a

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software company. Later, working for David Duffield, with whom he went on to co-found Workday,George Anders, "Snubbed By Oracle, Workday's Duffield And Bhusri Hit Jackpot"
Forbes
' September 16, 2013 he became responsible for product strategy and

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. In 1999, he became vice chairman of the company, serving in that role until the takeover by Oracle in 2004. In the meantime,

had developed ERP, CRM, and other offerings, in addition to Human Resource Management. Also since 1999, Bhusri has been a partner at

, a venture capital firm which has backed companies including

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and

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. At Greylock he has been an investor in cloud technologies, with an emphasis on applications, data center infrastructure and middleware, and serves on the boards of a number of companies in which Greylock has invested, including

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and

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Workday

In 2003, Oracle made a $13 billion bid in a hostile corporate

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attempt of

. This and later offers were rejected by PeopleSoft's board of directors. Despite a

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suit to block the takeover, on the grounds of anti-trust infringement, in December 2004, Oracle announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for approximately $10.3 billion. In 2005, Workday was co-founded by David Duffield and Bhusri with funding from

. Workday sells software and services using the

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model. Bhusri is the

(CEO) at Workday. He is also a member of the company's board of directors, and served as chairman of the board from 2012 until May 2014. In April 2020, Bhusri donated $1 million to the Give2SF fund, a donation drive to help residents and businesses in San Francisco affected by the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, he was ranked No. 359 on the

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400 list of the richest people in America.

Media appearances

Bhusri was interviewed by

Reid Hoffman Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for prof ...

on th
Masters of Scale
podcast, where he talked about interviewing his first 500 employees at Workday to shape its award-winning company culture.

Awards

* 2013 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award Recipient * 2020 Great Place to Work CEO For All Leadership Award

References

External links

WorkdayGreylock
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