Douglas Kehring

Doug Kehring joined Oracle in 2000 and is currently executive vice president of Corporate Operations. His responsibilities include oversight of corporate development, corporate systems, cloud data center strategy, and business transformation. As part of Oracle’s internal transformation to the cloud, Kehring coordinates the design and implementation of reimagined business processes to ensure that the company is effectively serving customer needs, that Oracle is the #1 reference for its cloud technologies, and that employees have a superior user experience. He also assists with data center investment planning efforts at Oracle as the company expands the number of data centers around the world to support its fast-growing cloud business.

Kehring continues to serve as the head of Oracle's corporate development group, a position he has held since 2005. The group provides planning, advisory, execution, and integration management services to Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, source-code and object-code licensing, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other related transactions.

Kehring began his career at Oracle in 2000 as part of the Oracle Venture Fund. He joined the company after working for the investment banks of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Dain Bosworth. He is a graduate of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.