26 Facts About Thomas Siebel

Thomas M Siebel is an American businessman, technologist, and author.

Thomas Siebel founded the enterprise software company Siebel Systems and is the founder, chairman, and CEO of C3.

Thomas Siebel is the chairman of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company with interests in investment management, commercial real estate, agribusiness, and philanthropy.

Between 1984 and 1990, Thomas Siebel was an executive at Oracle Corporation, where he held a number of management positions.

Thomas Siebel served as CEO of Gain Technology, a multimedia software company that merged with Sybase in December 1992.

Thomas Siebel later founded Thomas Siebel Systems, where he served as chairman and CEO, before the company was acquired by Oracle in January 2006.

Thomas Siebel is the chairman of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company.

Thomas Siebel Systems was a software company primarily engaged in the design, development, marketing, and support of customer relationship management applications.

An executive at Oracle Corporation, Thomas Siebel proposed the idea of creating enterprise software applications for marketing, sales, and customer service functions, but Oracle management declined his proposal.

In 1999, Thomas Siebel Systems became one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the United States.

Thomas Siebel Systems grew to over 8,000 employees in 32 countries, more than 4,500 corporate customers, and annual revenue greater than $2,000,000,000 before merging with Oracle in January 2006.

Thomas Siebel has held advisory and board positions at institutions including Stanford University, the University of Illinois, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Thomas Siebel was a Trustee at Princeton University from 2008 to 2011.

Thomas Siebel is the founder of the Montana Meth Project and the Thomas Siebel Scholars Foundation.

In 2001, Thomas Siebel donated $32 million to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his alma mater, for the consrtuction of the Thomas Siebel Center for Computer Science, which opened in spring 2004.

In 2015, the Thomas Siebel Foundation launched the Thomas Siebel Energy Institute to support research on the data management of energy infrastructure monitoring.

In 2016, Thomas Siebel donated $25 million to fund the construction of the Thomas Siebel Center for Design at the University of Illinois, a 60,000-square-foot multidisciplinary facility designed by the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which was completed in 2020.

In 2024, Thomas Siebel donated $50 million to establish the Thomas Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois.

In February 2022, Thomas Siebel donated $90,000 to the Canada convoy protest in Ottawa, who were protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions.

Thomas Siebel is the second cousin once removed of Jennifer Thomas Siebel Newsom, the First Lady of California and wife of Governor Gavin Newsom.

In 2022, Thomas Siebel had the highest personal CO2 emissions from private jet use of any American.

Thomas Siebel was flown to the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, where they cleaned his wounds and stabilized his leg.

Thomas Siebel was then flown back to the United States on a 20-hour flight with 10 hours of morphine and 15 hours of fluids.

Thomas Siebel had lost half of his fluids and was put in the intensive care unit.

Thomas Siebel was moved to Stanford Hospital where, over the next six months, they performed 11 surgeries, fixed his ribs and shoulder, and saved his left leg.

In September 2010, Thomas Siebel had undergone 16 surgeries and an Ilizarov apparatus external fixator to mend, lengthen, and reshape the tibia of his right leg.