Five facts about oracles co-executive chiefs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

September 22 (Reuters) -Oracle on Monday named Insiders Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as co -executive officer and replaced Safra Catz, who was 11 years at the helm of the cloud services provider. Catz will remain with the company as a vice -chairman of the council. Here are five things to know about Oracle’s new Chiefs Magouyrk and Sicilia: Clay Magouyrk * Magouyrk (39), has a Bachelor’s Scientiae degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Memphis. His early professional experience includes engineering roles at Hilton Hotels, followed by Amazon. * He joined Oracle in 2014, after six years at Amazon and his cloud division, Amazon Web Services, where he held senior cloud leadership roles. * Magouyrk is a founding member of Oracle’s Cloud Engineering Team and played an important role in designing and implementing Oracle Cloud infrastructure. * He is also credited by significantly expanding the global data center operations of Oracle. * As part of the new role, Magouyrk will get stock options to buy $ 250 million from shares. Mike Sicilia * Sicilia (54) holds a Bachelor or Science degree in Computer Science at the University of Saint Joseph in Pennsylvania. He is actively engaged in his alma mater, serves in the board of friends of Father Judge High School and supports fundraising initiatives. * Sicilia joined Oracle through the acquisition of Primavera Systems, the acquisition of project management software, where he last held the role of chief technology officer. He started his career as a software engineer in 1993. * He was recently the president of Oracle Industries, supervision of businesses, including retail, financial services, healthcare, communications, engineering and construction. * Sicilia is also actively involved in philanthropic efforts, leading Oracle’s partnerships with governments and organizations worldwide in areas such as Covid-19 response and healthcare innovation. * As part of the new role, Sicilia will get stock options to buy $ 100m to shares. (Reporting by Critika Lamba and Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; editing by Shilpi Majumdar)