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Donna Auguste is an American businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and engineer. She was born in 1958 in the United States. She is the founder and CEO of Freshwater Software, a software company that provides enterprise software solutions. She is also the founder of the Auguste Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization that focuses on education, health, and economic development.
Auguste earned her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1980. She then went on to earn her master's degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1982.
Auguste began her career as a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard in 1983. She then went on to become the director of software engineering at Sun Microsystems in 1989. In 1995, she founded Freshwater Software, which she ran until it was acquired by BMC Software in 2006.
In addition to her business career, Auguste is also a philanthropist. She is the founder of the Auguste Family Foundation, which focuses on education, health, and economic development. She is also a board member of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
Auguste is married and has two children. She currently resides in Palo Alto, California. As of 2021, Donna Auguste's net worth is estimated to be around $50 million.
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Donna Auguste Height, Weight & Measurements
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Donna Auguste Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Donna Auguste worth at the age of 65 years old? Donna Auguste’s income source is mostly from being a successful Engineer. She is from United States. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
In 2009, Auguste was awarded $750,000 from Santa Clara County as a settlement for winning a high-profile lawsuit stemming from questionable tactics used by the prosecutor from the district attorney's office in a criminal case where Auguste's Colorado home was searched in connection with her nephew Damon Auguste's rape conviction which was later overturned. She is a Catholic and a member of Cure d'Ars Parish in Denver.
In 2001, she sold Freshwater Software to Mercury Interactive Corp. for $147 million. In the same year, she was recognized as one of the "25 Women Who Are Making It Big in Small Business" by Fortune Magazine. She also won the 2001 Golden Torch Award for Outstanding Woman in Technology.
In 1996, Auguste relocated to Boulder, Colorado and joined U.S. West Advanced Technologies as senior director of multimedia systems engineering and development. While working on interactive television applications for the company's fiber-optic broadband network, Auguste foresaw the potential of the internet and later launched her own company: Freshwater Software Inc., a provider of software solutions for maintaining and monitoring business-critical web applications. Freshwater Software grew rapidly from a tiny start-up into a nationally recognized multimillion-dollar software provider which boasted Fortune 500 clients such as Alta Vista, IBM, Microsoft, Go.com, and Merrill Lynch. Freshwater Software was later purchased by Mercury Interactive Corp. of California for $147 million in 2001.
While conducting research in applied science and artificial intelligence at Carnegie-Mellon University, Auguste interned at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center and met the future founders of IntelliCorp. Auguste was hired by IntelliCorp as a software engineer in 1986 to work on technology products that incorporated artificial intelligence. After spending four years at IntelliCorp, Auguste took a break from work for two months to bike through Japan's countryside. Upon her return, Auguste was hired by Apple Computer in 1990 to serve as lead software engineering manager for the Newton PDA development project. While at Apple Computer, Auguste was well-liked and won praises for her managerial skills as well as technical contributions (she held various patents for her work on the Newton PDA).
Donna Auguste was born in Texas but relocated to Louisiana and then to Berkeley, California. She and her four sisters were raised by their mother. Since an early age, Auguste loved to tinker with things: from taking apart doorbells to disassembling toasters and other electrical appliances. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in the electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) program at the University of California, Berkeley where she overcame many obstacles to earn her undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She did graduate study in computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University, where she earned her MS degree in 1983.
Donna Auguste (born 1958) is an African-American businesswoman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She was the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Freshwater Software from 1996 to 2001. Prior to Freshwater Software, she was a senior engineering manager at Apple Computer who helped to coordinate the development of the Newton personal digital assistant (PDA).
