He had illustrious positions in the early years, joining the former Sun Microsystems in 1989 where ended up as EVP of software and was responsible for Sun's software products strategy and development, including the acquisition of MySQL, and for driving Sun's product, licensing and support businesses. William Hunt served as CPO from March 2014 through April 2015, going on to serve as a group VP at Oracle. Since then, Eric Ornas, SVP of customer support and operations, has held the job on an interim basis.