Edward Screven

Edward Screven is executive vice president and chief corporate architect at Oracle.

He leads the teams that drive innovative product strategy, engineering, operations, sales, and technical support for a wide range of Oracle products.

In his role as chief corporate architect, Edward drives technology and architecture decisions across all Oracle products and leads companywide strategic initiatives, including industry standards and security. He is responsible for Oracle Labs, which identifies, explores, and transfers new technologies that have the potential to substantially improve Oracle’s—and customers’—business. He’s responsible for many of Oracle’s best-known open source programs including Java, Oracle Linux, MySQL, and VirtualBox.

Edward studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and continues to enjoy programming in his personal time.