Melissa Di Donato
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Nationality | American |
Education | - Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Russian from Manhattanville College in New York, - MBA in International Business from American University, - Master of Arts in Russian with a focus on Russian women authors from American University, - Certificate from Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia |
Occupation | Business executive, software developer, author |
Known for | CEO of SUSE |
Spouse(s) | Darren Roos |
Melissa Di Donato is an American-born businesswoman based in the United Kingdom and the CEO of SUSE. She is also the first female CEO of SUSE.[1][2][3][4]
Career[]
Early in her career, Melissa Di Donato became one of the few woman software developers who were working on enterprise resource planning system, R3, being developed by SAP at the time. She had various positions at IBM, Salesforce, Oracle and eventually became the Chief Operating Officer of SAP for its ERP division.[5][6][7]
In mid 2019, Di Donato was appointed as the CEO of SUSE becoming the first female CEO at SUSE.[8] She is noted to have led a major change in the corporate culture including starting mentoring programs.[5][9][10][3] Under her leadership, in May of 2021, SUSE successfully listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. At the time, SUSE’s IPO marked Europe's largest software IPO of 2021, and Melissa became the first woman to take a multibillion-euro company public on the Deutsche Börse in the 21st century.[11][12]
She was named 2021 Woman of the Year by the Women in IT Awards UK,[13][14] and was also the 2018 recipient of the Digital Masters Award by the Up Group.[15] She has been named as "The Personality of the Year UK for Cloud Computing", ranked among "Top 10 most influential women in UK technology" for many years and was awarded the "Technology Woman of Achievement" award by Women in the City.[16] She has been awarded the "Women in Tech forum" award and the "Decision Maker in Digitalization" award by KPMG and Wirtschaftswoche in 2021.[16][17][18][19]
Di Donato is a Non-Executive Director of Burgundy Technology Corp, and an Advisory Board Member of Capri Ventures.[16][20] and an executive in residence at Notion Capital.[21] She is also the founder of the Inner Wings foundation, and the author of three children's books.[22]
References[]
- ^ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. "SUSE names Melissa Di Donato new CEO". ZDNet.
- ^ "Suse acquires Kubernetes management platform Rancher Labs". Retrieved August 9, 2021.
- ^ a b Bhartiya, Swapnil (February 28, 2020). "How Melissa Di Donato Is Going To Reinvent SUSE".
- ^ Florentine, Sharon (January 31, 2020). "6 tips for becoming a better mentor". CIO.
- ^ a b Phil La Duke (November 5, 2020). Melissa Di Donato: “Energy management”.
- ^ Chan, Rosalie. "The CEO of SUSE says the coronavirus crisis may benefit the open source company, especially now that its biggest rival has been 'taken out' by IBM". Business Insider.
- ^ "SUSE CEO: 'our strategy in addressing the main customer challenges'". April 15, 2020.
- ^ "Former SAP COO, Melissa Di Donato, appointed CEO of SUSE". Information Age. 2019-07-22. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
- ^ "Why SUSE just shelled out millions for Rancher Labs". Protocol. July 27, 2020.
- ^ "Executive interview: Melissa Di Donato, CEO, SUSE". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
- ^ Busvine, Arno Schuetze, Douglas (May 19, 2021). "REFILE-UPDATE 1-Software company SUSE holds own in Frankfurt debut". Retrieved August 9, 2021 – via www.reuters.com.
- ^ "Software company SUSE holds own in Frankfurt debut". CNBC. May 19, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
- ^ "The Women in IT UK Awards winners 2021 have been announced". June 25, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
- ^ "WIT Awards London | Last Word Media". WIT Awards London | Last Word Media. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
- ^ "Digital Masters Awards". theupgroup.
- ^ a b c "Don't be a lady; be a legend. Or the CEO of SUSE". April 17, 2020.
- ^ Leprince-Ringuet, Daphne. "Open source is getting bigger and richer, says SUSE". ZDNet.
- ^ Florentine, Sharon (November 27, 2019). "At SUSE, mentoring helps shape the future for women in tech". CIO.
- ^ "Das sind die Entscheidungsmacher:innen des Jahres 2021". wiwo.de.
- ^ ""We collaborate fiercely and without boundaries" – an Interview with SUSE CEO Melissa di Donato". March 23, 2020.
- ^ "Team - Melissa Di Donato". Notion vc.
- ^ "inner wings - A confidence building foundation". Inner Wings.
External links[]
- American University alumni
- American women chief executives
- Living people