Scott McNealy Biography, Age, Married, Sun, Wayin and Net Worth

Publish date: 2024-05-04

Scott McNealy Biography

Scott McNealy (Scott G. McNealy) is an American businessman who is known for being one of the co-founders of the Sun Microsystems technology company. He is also the founder of Curriki, a free, online, open education service that he started while still with Sun, in 2004. He also co-founded Wayin, a social intelligence and visualization company based in Denver, in 2011. He was the CEO of the company till 2016 when he stepped down.

How old is Scott McNealy? | Scott McNealy Age

McNealy is 64 years old as of 2018. He was born in Columbus, Indiana, U.S. on 13th November 1954.

Scott McNealy Family | Parents

Scott was born into the family of Raymond William McNealy Jr (1927-2014) and his wife Marmalee Noffke McNealy.

Scott McNealy Married? | Wife

McNealy is a married man. He has been married to Susan McNealy since 1994. They have four children together: Maverick McNealy (a golfer), Scout McNealy, Colt McNealy, and Dakota McNealy.


Scott McNealy Career

McNealy began his professional life with a job at American Motors, his father’s company. He got a position at Onyx Systems where he became a manufacturing director. Onyx Systems, a vendor of microprocessor-based Unix systems was founded in 1979.

He studied at Harvard University for his Bachelor of Arts in economics and at Stanford University for his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was approached by his Stanford alumnus Vinod Khosla, in 1982. He wanted McNealy to help provide the necessary organizational and business leadership for Sun Microsystems. The name Sun was adopted from Andy Bechtolsheim‘s original SUN (Stanford University Network) computer project called the SUN workstation.

Khosla was the first CEO of Sun Microsystems and in 1984, McNealy became the CEO. Khosla eventually left in 1985. He served as the CEO for 22 years and on April 24, 2006, he stepped down. He handed over the job over to Jonathan Schwartz. The company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010. McNealy received the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1987 in the Northern California Region.

In 2017, McNealy joined golf app 18Birdies as an advisor and equity partner while in early 2018, he joined the Redis Labs Advisory Board. He also makes regular appearances on the Fox Business Channel to discuss libertarian business issues.

Scott McNealy Wayin

In 2011, McNealy co-founded a company called Wayin, a social media intelligence company. Unfortunately, Wayin was not widely covered during its launch as it was the day the co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, died. In 2016, the company sought out and merged with EngageSciences to acquire senior staff, and diversify their market and McNealy stepped down from the CEO position. The company makes an application store for brands to self-publish interactive advertising campaigns using reusable digital assets, removing the bulk of cost involved in delivering multi-channel digital advertising.

Scott McNealy Positions at Sun Microsystems

»  Chairman of the board of directors from April 2006 to January 2010
»  Chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer from April 2004 to April 2000
»  Chairman of the board of directors, president and chief executive officer from July 2002 to April 2004
»  Chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer from April 1999 to June 2002
»  Chairman of the board of directors, president and chief executive officer from December 1984 to April 1999
»  President and chief operating officer from February 1984 to December 1984
»  Vice president of operations from February 1982 to February 1984

What is Scott McNealy net worth?

With his several business ventures, Scott McNealy’s net worth has been estimated at $1 billion USD.

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