Safra Catz

Safra Catz was born in 1961 in Holon

Catz was born in December 1961 in Holon, Israel, to Jewish parents. At age 6 she moved with her family to Brookline, Massachusetts. Her father is a physics professor.

She graduated from Brookline High School. She earned a bachelor's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and a law degree from its law school in 1986.

From 1986 she worked in investment banking, and at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette she became a senior vice president and later a managing director. She joined Oracle in April 1999, entered its board in 2001 and became president in 2004. She was CFO from 2005 to 2008 and again from 2011 to 2014.

In 2014 she and Mark Hurd were named joint CEOs of Oracle, and after Hurd died in 2019 she was sole CEO. In September 2025 she became executive vice chair. She has served on the boards of HSBC, Disney and Paramount Skydance, and she lectures in accounting at Stanford.

After the 2016 US election she was a member of Donald Trump's transition team. She is married to Gal Tirosh, and they have two sons.