Diane Greene was a founder of VMware

VMware

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 and the CEO from 1998 to 2008.
Greene, Mendel Rosenblum

Mendel Rosenblum

Mendel Rosenblum is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and one of the co-founders of VMware. Since 2008 he is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to reinventing virtual machines", and had previously received the ACM SIGOPS Mark...

, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion

Edouard Bugnion

Edouard Bugnion was raised in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.Bugnion graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from ETH Zurich in 1994 and a master's degree from Stanford University in 1996. He was one of the five founders of VMware in 1998 and was the chief architect until 2004. He had been a...

 founded VMware in 1998.

Born in Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

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, Greene received her bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

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 in mechanical engineering in 1976 from the University of Vermont

University of Vermont

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, and earned a Master's Degree in Naval Architecture

Naval architecture

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 from MIT in 1978. In 1988 she earned a second Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Rosenblum and Greene, who are married, first met while at Berkeley.

On July 8, 2008, Greene was unexpectedly fired as president and CEO by the VMware Board of Directors and replaced by Paul Maritz

Paul Maritz

Paul Maritz is CEO of VMware Corporation , and a past senior executive at Microsoft.Born and raised in Rhodesia , his family later moved to South Africa where he was schooled at Highbury Preparatory School and Hilton College. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Natal,...

, a retired 14-year Microsoft

Microsoft

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 veteran.

Since August 2006, Greene has been on the board of directors of Intuit.