Hector Garcia-Molina — Board Member Accountability Profile
Category: Academic / Former Corporate Director (Deceased) Role: Former Independent Director, Oracle Corporation Board Tenure: 2001 – 2019 (deceased August 19, 2019) Committee Memberships: Finance and Audit Committee (historical) Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership) — Historical Record
Basis for Inclusion: Hector Garcia-Molina held a documented governance role at Oracle Corporation as an independent director. Oracle Corporation is a major enterprise software and cloud computing company and made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities. This profile documents the factual historical governance relationship as a matter of public record.
Subject Classification: Academic / Former Corporate Director. His board role and academic career are matters of public record. Note: Professor Garcia-Molina passed away on August 19, 2019. This profile is a historical governance record.
What is NOT the basis for inclusion: Personal political opinions, party affiliation, or protected speech are NOT the basis for inclusion.
Biographical Overview
Hector Garcia-Molina (1951–2019) was the Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and a pioneer in the field of database systems. He served as Chair of Stanford’s Computer Science Department. His research contributions included work on distributed databases, data integration, web search, and information retrieval — foundational areas for the modern internet and enterprise data management. Garcia-Molina served as an Oracle independent director from 2001 until his death in August 2019, contributing deep computer science and database expertise to the board of the world’s largest database software company. He is considered one of the most influential database researchers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Board Role and Governance Authority
- Company: Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL)
- Board tenure: 2001 – 2019 (historical; deceased August 19, 2019)
- Committee assignments: Finance and Audit Committee (historical)
Other Current Board Memberships (if applicable)
N/A (deceased 2019)
Parent Corporate Donor Profile
This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the Oracle Corporation corporate donor profile.
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Investigative trail pointers (public records)
Education only — verify independently. Absence of hits is not proof.
| Channel | Starting points |
|---|---|
| Federal courts | CourtListener / PACER party and attorney searches (spelling variants) |
| Campaign finance | FEC + OpenSecrets for committees and donors tied to documented roles |
| Corporate / LLC | State secretary of state; OpenCorporates for cross-border shells from reporting |
| Sanctions / PEP | OpenSanctions when international business context is already sourced |
| Contracts / grants | USAspending.gov for named entities from investigations |
Use public-records-research-specialist, corporate-intelligence-investigator, and public-corruption-ombudsman evidence tiers.
Sources
- Oracle Corporation DEF 14A Proxy Statements, 2001–2019; SEC EDGAR
- Stanford University memorial and faculty records (public)
- ACM and IEEE database research records (public)