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Lawrence J. Ellison

  • Executive Chair of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, ORCL since 2014-09src

Founded Oracle in 1977; CEO until 2014; Executive Chair and CTO since

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation60company five-year record: neutral
Pay design73operating income, revenue, time only · 81.9% for · 0.05% of net income
Skin in the game100stake worth $172.8bn, 30618× last year's pay
Age
81src
In the role
12 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
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Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
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Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 4

  • 346,000,000 Oracle shares (about 30% of his stake) are pledged to secure his personal loans and credit lines. He is the one person exempt from the anti-pledging policy, and the Governance Committee reviews his pledges quarterlysrc
  • Adopted a Rule 10b5-1 plan on 2026-06-22 to sell up to 50 million Oracle shares by 2026-10-24, about 4.3% of his 2025 stake. No sale under it was on Form 4 by 2026-09-23src
  • Oracle paid $5.56m in FY2025 for security at his main residence, which is nearly all of his reported paysrc
  • Not a named executive officer under SEC rules in FY2025. Oracle discloses his pay voluntarilysrc

In their favour 1

  • Pay is small next to profit: $5.6m total in FY2025 against $12.4bn of net income. Almost all his wealth rides on the stocksrc

Career

  1. 2014 – now
    Oracle Corporationsrc
    Executive Chair of the Board and Chief Technology Officer
    Since September 2014
  2. 1977 – 2014
    Oracle Corporationsrc
    Founder and Chief Executive Officer; director since 1977; Chairman 1995-2004

Undated in the sources

  • Amdahl Corporationsrc, Before founding Oracle (Software Development Laboratories) with two Amdahl colleagues

Achievements

  • Founded Oracle in June 1977 and was its CEO for 37 years, to September 2014src
  • Largest shareholder: 1,158,232,353 shares, 40.6% of the company, at 2025-09-19src
  • Salary of $1. His FY2025 cash bonus was cut from $5,207,393 to zero to preserve capital for Oracle's buildoutsrc
  • The proxy names him as responsible for Oracle's business strategy, corporate vision, technology and the cloud transitionsrc

Education

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, none attended, no degreesrc
  • University of Chicago, none attended, no degreesrc

Background

  • Founder Founded the company in 1977 and still controls about 40.6% of the shares. With the Executive Vice Chairs (Catz, Henley) he sits above two co-CEOs appointed in September 2025src
  • Family His son David Ellison shares a direct material interest in Skydance entities that bought Oracle cloud services (about $1.9m and $0.6m in FY2025). In 2024 David Ellison also bought Glass Aviation, which manages Oracle's aircraft (about $2.5m in FY2025)src
  • Other Companies tied to him bought about $10.8m and sold Oracle about $10.5m in FY2025, including SailGP sponsorship ($7.5m paid to his F50 League) and aircraft leases from his Wing and a Prayer. A price-protection agreement makes him refund Oracle if a cheaper equivalent was availablesrc
  • Investing Gave an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4bn of equity financing for Paramount Skydance's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (December 2025); his son is Paramount's CEOsrc
  • Boards Director of Tesla from December 2018 until the 2022 annual meeting; did not stand for re-electionsrc
  • Legal Defendant in the NetSuite derivative suit over Oracle's 2016 purchase of a company he held a large stake in. Chancery ruled for him after trial and the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed in January 2025src

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

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  1. Filing Oracle Corporation 10-K for fiscal 2026 (Information About Our Executive Officers) (0001193125-26-277521) · 2026-06-22
  2. Filing Oracle Corporation DEF 14A, 2025 annual meeting (0001193125-25-220801) · 2025-09-26
  3. Filing Oracle Corporation 8-K Item 5.07, 2025 annual meeting results (0001193125-25-291441) · 2025-11-21
  4. Filing Oracle Corporation 8-K Item 5.02, CFO appointment (states the Executive Chair and CTO holds revenue-based performance equity) (0001193125-26-142939) · 2026-04-06
  5. Filing Oracle Corporation 10-Q for Q1 fiscal 2027, Part II Item 5 (Rule 10b5-1 trading plans) (0001193125-26-389274) · 2026-09-11
  6. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1341439 (FY2025 10-K, 0000950170-25-087926) · 2025-06-18
  7. Filing Form 4, Lawrence J. Ellison (reporting CIK 901999), option grant of 2025-10-23 (0001341439-25-000066) · 2025-10-27
  8. Web search result WebSearch: Larry Ellison founding and education (summary: attended University of Illinois and University of Chicago without taking a degree; founded Software Development Laboratories in 1977 with two Amdahl colleagues) · 2026-09-24
  9. Web search result WebSearch: Larry Ellison leaving Tesla's board (Electrek, 2022-06-13; director since December 2018, did not stand for re-election in 2022) · 2026-09-24
  10. Web search result WebSearch: Delaware Supreme Court affirms ruling for Larry Ellison and Safra Catz in NetSuite derivative litigation (Sidley, Feb 2025) · 2026-09-24
  11. Web search result WebSearch: Paramount Skydance says Larry Ellison made an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4bn toward its Warner Bros. Discovery bid (Variety, Dec 2025) · 2026-09-24