Therese Tucker is an American businesswoman, the chairman, CEO and founder of

BlackLine BlackLine Systems, Inc., is an American enterprise software company that develops cloud-based services designed to automate and manage the entire financial close process as well as consolidation, invoice-to-cash, and intercompany accounting. The ...

, an

enterprise software Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than its individual users. Enterprise software is an integral part of a computer-based information ...

company with a market cap of $2.17 billion as of 2018.

Early life

She has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

Career

Tucker's first job was with

Hughes Aircraft The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace company, aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California, as a division of the Hughes Tool Company. The company produced the Hughes ...

as an engineer building fault detection firmware for surface ship sonar. Tucker was the chief technology officer (CTO) at SunGard Treasury Systems. In 2001, Tucker founded

, an

company.She took BlackLine public in 2016
Tucker served as chairman and CEO until she stepped down in August, 2020. She currently serves as Founder and Executive Chair on the company's board of directors. Following the BlackLine IPO in October 2016, her net worth was estimated at $140 million, based on her shareholding of about 13% in a company valued at $1.15 billion. In February 2020, Forbes estimated her net worth at $370 million.

Award

* 2018:

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' America's Top 50 Women In Tech.

Personal life

Tucker is married, with two children, and her husband works as a hospital chaplain.

References

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