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Mr. Meisler, 56, has been Executive Vice President, Latin America Sales and Consulting since July 2008. He
served as Senior Vice President, Latin America Sales and Consulting from December 2001 to July 2008; as
Vice President, Latin America Sales and Consulting from June 2001 to December 2001; and as Managing
Director of Oracle Brazil from January 2000 to May 2001. He served as Vice President, Latin America
Consulting from June 1999 to January 2000 and as Vice President, Oracle Brazil Consulting from March
1998 to May 1999.
Mr. Rottler, 42, has been Executive Vice President, Oracle Customer Services since September 2006. He was
Executive Vice President, Oracle Support and Oracle On Demand, from January 2005 to September 2006 and
was Executive Vice President, Oracle On Demand, from September 2004 to January 2005. Prior to joining us,
he served as Senior Vice President, Public Sector, Customer Solutions Group at Hewlett-Packard Company
(HP), from December 2003 to September 2004, where he was responsible for HP’s worldwide Public Sector,
Health and Education business. He also held various other global and regional executive positions in HP’s
Services and Software business units since 1997.
Mr. Rozwat, 61, has been Executive Vice President, Product Development, since October 2007. He served as
Executive Vice President, Server Technologies from November 1999 to October 2007 and served as Senior
Vice President, Database Server from December 1996 to October 1999. He served as Vice President of
Development from December 1994 to November 1996.
Mr. Williams, 64, has been Executive Vice President, Japan Sales and Consulting since June 2008 and was
Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific Sales and Consulting from October 2000 to May 2008. He served as
Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific from July 1993 to October 2000 and as Vice President, Asia Pacific from
April 1991 to July 1993. He joined Oracle United Kingdom in October 1988 and served as Regional Director,
Strategic Accounts from October 1988 to April 1991.
Ms. Daley, 50, has been Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since October 2007. She
served as Vice President, Legal, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary from June 2004 to
October 2007, as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary from October 2001 to June 2004, and as
Associate General Counsel from February 2001 to October 2001. She joined Oracle’s Legal Department in
1992.
Mr. West, 47, has been Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer since
February 2008 and was Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer from April 2007
to February 2008. Prior to joining us, he served as Intuit Inc.’s Director of Accounting from August 2005 to
March 2007, as The Gap, Inc.’s Assistant Controller from April 2005 to August 2005, and as Vice President,
Finance, at Cadence Design Systems, Inc.’s product business from June 2001 to April 2005. He also spent
14 years with Arthur Andersen LLP, most recently as a partner.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
We operate in a rapidly changing economic and technological environment that presents numerous risks,
many of which are driven by factors that we cannot control or predict. The following discussion, as well as
our “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” discussion in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations (Item 7), highlights some of these risks.
The effects of the current recession and the recent global economic crisis may impact our business, results
of operations, financial condition or stock price. The current recession and recent global economic crisis
have caused a general tightening in the credit markets, lower levels of liquidity, increases in the rates of
default and bankruptcy, and extreme volatility in credit, equity and fixed income markets. These
macroeconomic developments could negatively affect our business, operating results or financial condition in
a number of ways which, in turn, could adversely affect our stock price.
For example, current or potential customers may reduce their IT spending or be unable to fund software or
services purchases, which could cause them to delay, decrease or cancel purchases of our products and
services or not to pay us or to delay paying us for previously purchased products and services.
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Source: ORACLE CORP, 10-K, June 29, 2009 Powered by Morningstar® Document Research℠