Title: Co-founder and CEO, Workday; partner, Greylock Partners
Born: February 14, 1966, Pittsford, New York
Education: BA in economics and BS in electrical engineering, Brown University; MBA, Stanford University
Early Marker: Chief strategist, PeopleSoft
Big Idea: Low-cost cloud-based financial, payroll and HR software services
Wave of the Future: White-collar-job disruption, enterprise cloud computing
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