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Jerry Held is currently CEO of the Held Consulting Group, a firm that provides strategic consulting to CEOs and senior executives of technology firms ranging from startups to very large organizations and private equity firms. Prior to his current position, Held was a senior executive at both Oracle Corp. and Tandem Computers.

In 1998, Held was "CEO-in-residence" at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Through 1997, at Oracle Corporation's server product division, he led a division of 1,500 people and helped the company grow from $1.5 billion to $6 billion in annual sales.

Held spent 18 years at Tandem Computers, where he was a member of the team that grew Tandem from a startup to a $2 billion company. During his tenure at Tandem, he held several senior management positions, including chief technology officer, senior vice president of strategy, and vice president of new ventures.

Held received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue, an M.S. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he led the initial development of the INGRES relational database management system. He also attended the Stanford Business School's Executive Program.

Held currently serves on the boards of Business Objects, Openwave, MetaMatrix, Mirapoint and is chairman of Software Development Technologies. He is also a member of the board of directors and Vice Chairman of the Tech Museum of Innovation and a member of the board of Montalvo Arts Center.

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