Shoaib Abbasi

Who is Shoaib Abbasi?

Sohaib Abbasi, CEO of Informatica and a former executive of Oracle Corporation, was born in Lahore, Pakistan and moved to various cities with his father, an air force official, before reaching the United States in 1974. Abbasi earned a Bachelor's, and later a Master's degree, in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Oracle in 1982 when it had only 30 employees and the revenue was about four million dollars a year. Abbasi spent 20 years at Oracle Corporation where he was a member of the company’s executive committee and, as Senior Vice President, led two major divisions: Oracle Tools and Oracle Education. When he retired from the company in March 2003, Oracle had more than 42,000 employees and annual revenues of US $9.5 billion.

Abbasi became chief executive of Informatica Corp. in July, 2004 at a time when the data integration software company was struggling financially and with its identity. Abbasi took the helm and refocused the company on a narrower set of products, while evangelizing the broader use of data integration across the enterprise. Under his leadership, Informatica's revenues have jumped from $219 million in fiscal 2004 to $455 million in fiscal 2008. Informatica’s 20 percent growth rate over this period was 2.5 times the average for the software industry. Since Abbasi joined Informatica, the company has won numerous awards.