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Alfred Amoroso
American business executive (born 1950) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alfred J. Amoroso (born 1950)[1][2] is an American business executive. He has held multiple high-level positions in businesses including Rovi Corporation and Yahoo![3]
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Amoroso has a bachelor's degree in systems engineering and a Master's in operations research from the Polytechnic University of Brooklyn, now part of New York University.[1][4][5]
After college, Amoroso worked for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for a number of years in Texas, Illinois and Connecticut. He left EDS to found Computech, a systems consulting firm based in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It was acquired in 1985 by Price Waterhouse Consulting[4] and he stayed on as a managing partner for several years.[6] He was then recruited by IBM and worked in multiple capacities between November 1993 to October 1999, including serving as a member of the worldwide management committee.[7][8] He was named president, CEO and director of CrossWorlds Software, Inc. in November 1999, holding the roles until the company's merger with IBM in January 2002.[9] Amoroso was also an advisor to Warburg Pincus, a private equity investment firm, from September 2004 to June 2005.[10] He served on the board of Foundry Networks from October 2000 to December 2008 and as chairman from January 2007 to December 2008, when it was sold to Brocade Communications Systems.[citation needed]
From July 2002 to August 2004, Amoroso was the president, CEO, and vice chairman of META Group, an information technology research and advisory firm based in Stamford, Connecticut.[11][12][13][10] The company was acquired by Macrovision in 2006[14] and he later served as president, CEO and director of Macrovision, which was renamed Rovi Corporation in 2009.[15] Amoroso stepped down as CEO of Rovi in 2011 and was succeeded by Thomas Carson.[16] Amoroso joined the board of Yahoo! in February 2012 and oversaw the special committee assembled to investigate Scott Thompson's degree legitimacy.[17][3] He was chosen as the new board chairman in May 2012 after Thompson's departure.[17] He stepped down in April 2013 and left the board in June 2013.[18] He was temporarily replaced in the chairman role by director Maynard Webb Jr.[19]
He joined ModuleQ's advisory board in April 2015.[20] He continues to serve on the Bridge Restoration Ministry board, which he has been part of since at least 2012.[21]
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He and his wife Regina have four children.[22]
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