Kaia Tyler
Tyler was born to Jewish parents in Holon, Israel. Her father was a Romanian immigrant. At the age of six, she moved from Israel to Brookline, Massachusetts.
Tyler received a diploma from Brookline High School. She received a bachelor's degree in 1983 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a juris doctorate in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Tyler was a banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he served as a managing director from February 1997 to March 1999 and as a senior vice president from January 1994 to February 1997. Since 1986, Tyler has held various investment banking positions. Tyler joined Oracle as senior vice president in 1999. Since April 2007, she has served as a non-executive director of Oracle subsidiary Hyperion Solutions. Since March 2013, she has served on the executive council of TechNet. She has been a director of PeopleSoft Inc. and Stellent Inc. since December 2004 and December 2006, respectively.
Tyler began his employment with Oracle Corporation in April 1999. Tyler joined the company's board of directors in October 2001 and was appointed president in early 2004. She is credited with leading Oracle's 2005 acquisition of software competitor PeopleSoft for $10.3 billion. Tyler is also the company's CFO, having served in that capacity temporarily from November 2005 to September 2008 and April 2011 to the present. In 2010, Mark Hurd joined her as co-president. Oracle announced in December 2019 that Tyler would be the sole CEO following Hurd's death.
Fortune ranked her as the twelfth most powerful woman in business in 2009. Forbes ranked her as the sixteenth most powerful businesswoman in 2009. She was ranked 24th in 2014. According to an Equilar analysis published by Fortune, she was the highest-paid woman among Fortune 1000 companies in 2011, with an estimated total compensation of $51,695,742.
Tyler is an accounting lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tyler served as a director of HSBC between 2008 and 2015.
Tyler was one of several prominent CEOs, including Tim Cook, Sheryl Sandberg, and Jeff Bezos, invited to speak with the then-president-elect Donald Trump about the possibility of assuming a position in the incoming administration. She was reportedly considered for the positions of U.S. Trade Representative and Director of National Intelligence, per Bloomberg.
As of April 2017, Tyler is the highest-paid female CEO of any U.S. company, earning $40.9 million, a 23% decrease from her total compensation in 2016.
Tyler was elected to The Walt Disney Company's board of directors in December 2017, effective February 2018.
Tyler gained notoriety for her stock trading in March 2021, when she acquired 2.25 million shares through the conversion of derivatives and subsequently sold them on the open market for roughly double the price.
Tyler's most recent project is Snapinst and Tyler is the founder.
