# Safra Catz Israeli-American business executive; longtime CEO (2014–2025) and now executive vice chair of [[Oracle Corporation]]. Catz is the most consistently Trump-aligned big-tech CEO of the past decade — an early, explicit, and durable ally rather than a post-2024 convert. Where peers like [[Jeff Bezos]] and [[Sheryl Sandberg]] managed Trump cautiously, Catz declared before the December 2016 tech summit that "we are with him and ready to help," joined the first transition team's executive committee while remaining Oracle CEO, donated to Trump campaigns and Trump-aligned PACs across cycles, and resurfaced in the second term as a 2026 appointee to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Her career embodies the [[Revolving Door]] between enterprise tech, the intelligence community, and Trump-world. ## Background and Oracle Career Born December 1961 in Holon, Israel; emigrated to Brookline, Massachusetts at age six. Wharton BA (1983), Penn Law JD (1986). Investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette before joining Oracle in 1999 as senior VP under [[Larry Ellison]]. Board member since 2001; drove the hostile $10.3B PeopleSoft takeover (2004–05); CFO and co-president; named co-CEO with Mark Hurd in 2014 when Ellison stepped back, sole CEO after Hurd's death in 2019. Repeatedly ranked the highest-paid female CEO in the US ($138M total compensation in 2022). In September 2025 she moved up to executive vice chair as Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia became co-CEOs — a transition widely read as freeing her for a role in the Trump-blessed [[TikTok]] US joint venture. Net worth ~$3.1B (Forbes, August 2025). ## Trump Ties — First Term - **"We are with him and ready to help"** — Catz's pre-meeting statement ahead of the December 2016 Trump Tower tech summit, the most enthusiastic on-record support offered by any major tech CEO of that moment. She framed the agenda as tax reform, deregulation, and trade deals favorable to tech. - **Transition team executive committee** (December 2016) — joined while remaining Oracle CEO. Senior Oracle manager George Polisner publicly resigned in protest. - **Floated for administration posts** — Bloomberg reported she was considered for US Trade Representative and Director of National Intelligence (2016–17); in 2018 she was reportedly shortlisted to replace [[H.R. McMaster]] as National Security Advisor. - **Political money** — donated to [[Marco Rubio]] in the 2016 primary before swinging behind Trump; $150K+ to Republican groups and individuals in the 2018 cycle, including [[Devin Nunes]]; $250K (with her husband) to Trump's 2020 campaign; $1M to [[Preserve America PAC]], which spent $112M+ boosting Trump. ## Trump Ties — Second Term - **PCAST appointment (2026)** — named to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the reconstituted panel co-chaired by [[Michael Kratsios]] and [[David Sacks]] and stacked with industry figures. - **TikTok deal orbit** — Oracle's central role in the TikTok USDS joint venture is a signature Trump second-term deal; reporting around her September 2025 step-back from the CEO seat flagged her as a candidate for a leadership role in the new entity (Oracle is represented on its board by EVP Kenneth Glueck). - **[[Stargate]]** — as CEO through September 2025 she presided over Oracle's co-anchor role in the $500B AI infrastructure project announced at the White House in January 2025. **Note on the record:** her famous *offer of support* dates to November–December 2016 (first term). No verified reporting places her on the 2024–25 second transition team; her second-term role has run through PCAST, the TikTok deal, and Oracle's commercial alignment with the administration rather than a formal transition post. ## Intelligence and National Security Web Catz sits unusually deep in the IC-adjacent advisory layer for a commercial software executive: trustee of [[In-Q-Tel]] (the CIA's venture arm — Oracle itself began as a CIA project); member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (2018–2021); appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council in 2022 — by Biden DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a marker of how bipartisan her national-security standing is even as her political money runs one direction. ## Culture-War Footprint As a Disney board member (2018–2024), Catz objected so strongly to the gay character in the 2022 animated film *Strange World* that she reportedly threatened to have then-CEO Bob Chapek fired if it was released (NYT, 2024). In August 2025 she joined the board of [[Skydance-Paramount]] following the Ellison family's takeover — extending the Oracle–Trump–media nexus mapped in [[Tech Oligarch Media Map]]. Born in Israel, she has been involved in pro-Israel advocacy throughout her career. ## See Also - [[Oracle Corporation]] — the company she ran for a decade - [[Larry Ellison]] — her patron and Oracle's founder - [[Ellison Family]] — the dynasty whose interests her board seats serve - [[TikTok]] — the deal she may end up running - [[Stargate]] — Oracle's AI-era bet on Trump alignment - [[In-Q-Tel]] — CIA venture arm where she is a trustee - [[Ginni Rometty]] — the contrasting case: engagement-without-endorsement, first term only