Pat House is the Co-founder
and Vice Chairman of Siebel Systems, the world’s leading provider of
eBusiness application software. Pat co-founded Siebel Systems with Thomas
M. Siebel in July 1993. With Ms. House’s assistance, Siebel Systems has
been recognized by Fortune Magazine as the fastest growing company in America and by BusinessWeek
in its “INFO TECH 100 Annual Report” as the world’s highest
performing software company.
With
more than 7,000 full-time employees, Siebel Systems is a global
corporation providing comprehensive eBusiness solutions to many of the
world’s leading corporations including: IBM, Deutsche Telecom, Lucent,
Chase Manhattan Bank, The Charles Schwab Corporation, Yahoo!, Microsoft
and Kellogg’s.
Ms. House started her high technology
career in 1982 when she moved to northern California to join Verbatim
Corporation, a leading manufacturer of floppy diskettes and other storage
devices. While at Verbatim, Pat held a number of product marketing and
brand marketing positions. In 1987, Ms. House joined Oracle Corporation
where she held a variety of senior marketing positions. Following Oracle,
she moved to Frame Technology Corporation, a document authoring software
company where she became executive vice president of the company and
assisted in taking the company public.
Ms. House, a frequent industry
spokesperson, is the co-author of Cyber Rules, published by Doubleday. Now
a global best-seller, Cyber Rules has surpassed more than 300,000 copies
sold and is in print in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and
Chinese. Pat is a graduate of Western Michigan University from which she
holds a B.A. in Education.
Active in Education, Ms. House is a member
of the Corporate Council of Interlochen, an educational institution in
Traverse City, Michigan. Targeted at talented and highly motivated young
people from around the world, Interlochen emphasizes excellence in
artistic and academic achievement and arts presentation. A guest professor
at Stanford University, Pat frequently lectures in the MBA program and
teaches courses in Entrepreneurism.