Alfred Amoroso

Last updated

Fred Amoroso
Born1950 (age 74–75)
Alma mater Polytechnic University of Brooklyn
Known forFormer president and CEO of Rovi
Former chairman at Yahoo!
SpouseRegina Amoroso
Children4

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]

Contents

Biography

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]

Personal life

He and his wife Regina have four children. [22]

References

  1. 1 2 "Alfred Amoroso". Forbes . Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2012.
  2. ↑ "META Group Picks President, CEO". The Wall Street Journal. August 6, 2002. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Swisher, Kara (May 22, 2012). "Yahoo CEO Thompson Might Be Gone, But Internal Investigation Goes on". allthingsd.com . Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Amoroso, Alfred J." The Wall Street Transcript. September 10, 2015. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  5. ↑ Schwanhausser, Mark (November 27, 2007). "Fast facts: Valley CEOs and their colleges". Mercury News. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Accounting companies discovering interests beyond bookkeeping". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut, US. August 7, 1989. p. 52. Retrieved May 15, 2025– via newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Yahoo chairman and three directors leave". www.ft.com. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  8. ↑ "CrossWorlds CEO relinquishes reins to seasoned exec". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California, US. October 13, 1999. p. 25. Retrieved May 15, 2025– via newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Stein, Tom (October 13, 1999). "CrossWorlds' Controversial CEO to Quit Post". SFGate. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  10. 1 2 Spangler, Todd (May 25, 2011). "Rovi CEO Amoroso to Retire". Multichannel News. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  11. ↑ "METAmorphosis SA to be opened by Fred Amoroso, CEO of META Group International". itweb. April 24, 2003. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  12. ↑ "META Group Inc". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut, US. June 8, 2004. p. 62. Retrieved May 15, 2025– via newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ Newswires, Nick BakerDow Jones (December 27, 2004). "Gartner to Buy Meta Group In Deal Worth $162 Million". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Macrovision Acquires eMeta Corporation". ITNINJA. February 15, 2006. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  15. ↑ Spangler, Todd (July 16, 2009). "Macrovision, Now Rovi, Inks IPG Deal With Blockbuster". Multichannel News. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  16. ↑ "Thomas Carson Succeeds Alfred Amoroso As President And CEO Of Rovi". RTTNews. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  17. 1 2 "The new Yahoo board". Oakland Tribune. Oakland, California, US. May 14, 2012. p. 5. Retrieved May 15, 2025– via newspapers.com.
  18. ↑ Liedtke, Michael (April 25, 2013). "Yahoo chairman joins recent boardroom exodus". Associated Press. Retrieved April 26, 2013– via Yahoo!.[ dead link ]
  19. ↑ Paul, David (April 25, 2013). "Yahoo Inc chairman Alfred Amoroso resigns amid board exodus". Financial Post. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  20. ↑ "Fred Amoroso Joins ModuleQ Advisory Board" (Press release). ModuleQ. April 2015. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  21. ↑ "The Bridge Restoration Ministry". ProPublica. May 9, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  22. ↑ "Fred Amoroso". My Elevator Pitch for God. Retrieved May 15, 2025.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.