Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd, who resigned last month following a sex scandal, has joined US software giant Oracle as its new co-president, The New York Times said Monday.

Hurd joined Oracle as president and as a director, the Times report said.

“Mark did a brilliant job at HP and I expect he’ll do even better at Oracle,” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said, according to the report.

“There is no executive in the IT world with more relevant experience than Mark.”