Sohaib Abbasi

Sohaib Abbasi
Sohaib Abbasi Keynote session at Informatica World 2012
Born (1956-08-14) August 14, 1956 (age 68)
Lahore, Pakistan
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
OccupationChairman of Informatica
Years active1980-current
Known forCEO of Informatica
SVP, Tools Product Division of Oracle
SpouseSara Abbasi

Sohaib Abbasi (born August 14, 1956) is a Pakistani–American business executive, computer scientist and philanthropist. He is the former chairman and chief executive of Informatica, having served in the roles from 2004 until 2015.[1][2][3]

He was also a member of the executive committee of Oracle Corporation and led Oracle Tools and Oracle Education as senior vice president.[4][5] He retired from these roles in 2003 after 20 years with the company.[6][7]

Abbasi joined the board of directors for the software company, Red Hat Inc. in 2011.[8] In May 2016, Abbasi joined the board of directors for the San Francisco-based analytics company, New Relic.[9][5] And in August 2017, Abbasi joined the board of directors for San Francisco-based StreamSets, Inc.,[10] a DataOps company.

  1. ^ Novet, Jordan (6 August 2015). "Informatica completes $5.3B deal to go private; CEO Sohaib Abbasi Steps Down; Microsoft and Salseforce Ventures Invest". Venture Beat. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Sohaib Abbasi's Tribute to the World-Class Informatica Team -Current and Former Members". Informatica. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  3. ^ "SEC Form S-3". Nasdaq. 9 July 2004. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  4. ^ "Hall of Fame: Sohaib Abbasi". University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  5. ^ a b "Executive Profile:Sohaib Abbasi". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
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  8. ^ "Red Hat Names Informatica CEO, Professor to Board". Bloomberg Business. 28 March 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2016.[dead link]
  9. ^ "New Relic Appoints Sohaib Abbasi and James Tolonen to Its Board of Directors". Yahoo! Finance. May 4, 2016. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  10. ^ "StreamSets Appoints Ex-CEO of Informatica Sohaib Abbasi to its Board of Directors".