Sohaib Abbasi, CEO of Informatica and a former executive of Oracle Corporation, was born in Lahore, Pakistan and moved to various cities with his father, an air force official, before reaching the United States in 1974. Abbasi earned a Bachelor's and later a Master's degree in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Oracle in 1982 when it had only 30 employees and the revenue was about four million dollars a year. Abbasi spent 20 years at Oracle Corporation where he was a member of the company’s executive committee and, as Senior Vice President, led two major divisions: Oracle Tools and Oracle Education. When he retired from the company in March 2003, Oracle had more than 42,000 employees and annual revenues of US $9.5 billion.