Paul T. Dacier, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of EMC Corporation, is responsible for the worldwide legal affairs of EMC and its subsidiaries, and oversees the company’s internal audit, real estate and facilities organizations, and sustainability and government affairs departments.  With 2009 revenues of $14 billion and approximately 43,000 employees, EMC is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.

Dacier has been on the Council of the Boston Bar Association (BBA) since 2007 and was named to its Executive Committee in 2010.  In 2008, he co-chaired the BBA Strategic Planning Committee.  Dacier was instrumental in establishing the Business Litigation Session in Suffolk County, Massachusetts in the 1990s; is a past-chair and remains on the board of directors of the New England Legal Foundation; and is a trustee of the Social Law Library, the oldest law library in the United States.

Under Governor Mitt Romney, Dacier was a commissioner of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission and, in 2006, he was named presiding officer in the proceedings to de-designate or remove, for cause, the chairperson of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. 

Dacier has received numerous recognitions including being named in 2010 as one of the Most Influential Attorneys in the state by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly; receiving Massachusetts Appleseed’sGood Apple award in 2010; and being profiled in The National Law Journal and Inside Counsel magazines.  His team of approximately 80 lawyers has also received wide acclaim for its dedication and service in their profession, including being named Corporate Secretary magazine’s 2009 Corporate Governance Team of the Year.  He is a past president of the Knox Trail Council, Boy Scouts of America.

Dacier received a B.A. in History and a Juris Doctor from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and Wisconsin.