David Arthur Duffield, is well known multi-billionaire in dollars, and is one of America’s most famous business men in the software industry.
He was born 21 September 1940, having lived a fulfilled life, He is the co-founder and former chairman of PeopleSoft, the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus at Workday, Inc., and has been on the Forbes World’s Richest People list. Making it a remarkable feet to attain.
David Arthur, at his young age attended Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He graduated with the class of 1958.
Then he went ahead to study in college at Cornell University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and an MBA .
Duffield established two mainframe application software companies. He was CEO, chairman, and chief product architect at Integral Systems, the first company to offer DB2-based human resources and accounting systems.
He also co-founded Information Associates, which specialized in applications for the higher education market. In 1964, he began his career as a marketing representative and systems engineer at IBM.
David, through out his career has received several notable and honorable awards, such as the 1998 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
He has been married to his lovely wife Cheryl Duffield for many years and recently moved to a location near Lake Tahoe, from their previous home at California.
