Thomas Siebel

Thomas Siebel (born 1953) is the founder of Siebel Systems (in 1993; IPO 1996).

Before founding Siebel Systems, Mr. Siebel served as Chief Executive Officer of Gain Technology, a Multimedia software company that merged with Sybase in December 1992. From 1984 through 1990, he was an executive at Oracle, where he held a number of senior management positions. Mr. Siebel serves on the Board of Advisors of the University of Illinois College of Engineering. He is also a Director of the Montana Historical Society. He is a frequent industry spokesman and is the author of three books, Taking Care of eBusiness and Cyber Rules, published by Doubleday, and Virtual Selling, published by the Free Press. Mr. Siebel is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received a bachelor of arts in history, an MBA, and a master of science in computer science.

In 2001, he donated $32 million to his alma mater, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, for building the Siebel Center for Computer Science, opened in Spring 2004. He spent $70 million in November 2003 to buy UpShot Corp. to run sales management software for client companies over the Internet.

=See also=

*List of billionaires

=External links=

*[http://siebelcenter.cs.uiuc.edu/ Siebel Center] *[http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2004/LIR.jhtmlpassListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=SBMT&datatype=Person Forbes.com: Forbes World s Richest People]