Irina Simmons is Senior Vice President and Treasurer of EMC Corporation. With revenues of $17 billion in 2010 and approximately 48,500 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

Responsible for EMC's overall risk and liquidity management, Simmons oversees interest rate, equity, foreign exchange, and property/casualty risk as well as the management and investment of the company's approximately $10 billion in cash. Simmons manages EMC's global and investment banking relationships, including cash and debt management and cash flow forecasting. She is also responsible for EMC's pension and 401(k) plans.

Simmons joined EMC in 1995, after accumulating more than 15 years of experience in treasury and finance at several Massachusetts technology companies. Simmons was Assistant Treasurer at Lotus Development Corporation, and before that, Assistant Treasurer at Unitrode Corporation, a semiconductor firm. Prior to specializing in the treasury field, she held positions in finance at Millipore Corporation and Computervision Corporation.

Simmons serves on the Board of Trustees, is Chairman of the Finance Committee, and a member of the Compensation Committee of UMASS Memorial Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. She also serves on the Executive Board of the National Association of Corporate Treasurers (former Chairman), is a former President of the Boston Chapter of the Financial Executives International, and served on the Board of Trustees of Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts from 1999 to 2009.

In 1999 and 2005, under Simmons' leadership, EMC's Treasury Department received Treasury & Risk Management magazine's "Alexander Hamilton Award for Cash Management."

Simmons holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and French from Tufts University and an MBA from Boston University.