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Diane Greene the Business Face of 2007

That woman (and the co-worker team, as she prefers to call her employees) deserves full credit!

The president of one of the valley's hottest companies is a private person who loathes talking about herself. But the breakaway performance of her company - which has become the fourth-largest publicly traded software firm in the world after an initial public offering in August - has much to do with the woman who runs it.

An MIT- and UC Berkeley-trained engineer and computer scientist, she brings a geek's eye for results to VMware's business of virtualization. As a lifelong sailor, she provides a sense of patience, poise and long-term vision as CEO. And as the third of four children, she's always looking for ways to broker peace and establish partnerships.


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