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Jay Rossiter is Senior Vice President of the Cloud Platform Group at Yahoo!. In this role, Jay leads the team that has built one of the world’s largest private cloud systems that powers every click on the Yahoo! network. He has successfully led the creation of critical software platforms and is delivering the next generation of cloud services that redefines how Yahoo! leverages technology and science at scale to enable rapid innovation, sustainable product differentiation and new monetization opportunities in the marketplace.
Jay is a veteran of the computer industry having worked at organizations such as Bell Laboratories, 3COM Corporation and Oracle Corporation. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Jay was Vice President of the System Management Products Division at Oracle where he built Oracle’s $400M application and system management business from scratch – nearly quadrupling revenues over 4 years.
At Oracle, he was a member of the CEO’s weekly Product Planning and Strategy Committee, and was instrumental in the development of Oracle’s Grid and Fusion strategies. He was also responsible for the overall delivery of the Oracle9i database and for many of Oracle’s core networking and security solutions.
