Career
Schwartz started his career in 1987 at McKinsey & Company in New York City, focused on serving consumer products and financial services companies. In 1989, Schwartz left McKinsey and moved to Chevy Chase, Maryland, where he was a co-founder of Lighthouse Design, a company focused on building software for Steve Jobs's NeXT Computer, Inc. In the early 1990s, Lighthouse Design moved to San Mateo, California. Eventually, Schwartz became chief executive officer of Lighthouse.
In 1996, with NeXT failing in the marketplace and the internet beginning to explode globally, Lighthouse Design was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Schwartz began his career at Sun working for Eric Schmidt, then the head of Sun's Laboratories. After Schmidt's departure for Novell, Schwartz became the director of product marketing for JavaSoft in 1997 and then transitioned through a series of vice president positions. In 2004, Schwartz was promoted to president and chief operating officer of Sun. He eventually replaced Scott McNealy as CEO in April of 2008.
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