EMC Executive Bios
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Bill Cook
President of EMC's Greenplum Division -
Arthur W. Coviello Jr.
Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC -
Tom Heiser
President, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
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Rick Devenuti
President, Information Intelligence Group -
Brian Gallagher
President, Enterprise Storage Division -
Guy Churchward
President, Backup Recovery Systems
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Rich Napolitano
President, Unified Storage Division -
Bill Richter
President, Isilon Storage Division -
Amitabh Srivastava
President, Advanced Software Division
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John F. Hanlon
President, EMC Americas Sales and Customer Operations -
Adrian McDonald
President, Europe, Middle East and Africa -
David Webster
President, Asia Pacific and Japan
Senior Vice President, EMC Corporation
Bill Cook President of EMC's Greenplum Division

Bill Cook is president of EMC's Greenplum division. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
Mr. Cook is responsible for driving Greenplum's strategic direction and delivery of the next generation of data warehousing and analytics to some of the world's most successful companies. Under Cook's leadership, Greenplum grew from a start-up to helping EMC become a leader in Big Data, including acquiring the gold standard in agile software development, Pivotal Labs. Bill Cook reports to EMC's president and chief operating officer, David Goulden.
Prior to joining Greenplum, Cook served in several leadership positions in the IT industry. He spent 19 years at Sun Microsystems, most recently as Senior Vice President of US Sales. In this position he led a field force of 3,500 with revenues in excess of $5 billion. Additionally while at Sun, Bill helped lead the Sun worldwide storage business unit, as well as implementing Sun's global account model and strategic sales organization.
Cook earned his B.A. degree from Michigan State University.
January 2013
Arthur W. Coviello Jr. Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC

Art Coviello is Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
Coviello is responsible for RSA's strategy and overall operations as it delivers EMC's global vision of information-centric security. He was Chief Executive Officer of RSA Security, Inc. prior to its acquisition by EMC in 2006. He joined RSA in 1995 and has been a driving force in its rapid growth since that time. His expertise and influence have made him a recognized leader in the industry. He is frequently a featured presenter at conferences and forums around the world, and he plays key roles in several national cyber-security initiatives. He is based at RSA headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts.
Coviello has more than 30 years of strategic, operating and financial management experience in technology companies. In addition, he currently serves on the Board of Directors at EnerNOC, a leader in demand response systems for energy conservation, and AtHoc, a leading provider of enterprise class network-based mass notification systems for the security, life safety and defense sectors.
He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts.
January 2013
Tom Heiser President, RSA, The Security Division of EMC

Tom Heiser is President of RSA, The Security Division of EMC, a position he has held since February 2011. He reports to Art Coviello, Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and Executive Chairman, RSA, and to David Goulden, EMC President and Chief Operating Officer. With 3,000 employees worldwide, more than 30,000 customers, and over 25 years in the industry, RSA is the acknowledged leader in information security and a vital component of EMC's strategy to help customers store, manage, protect, and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted, and cost-efficient way.
In his role as President, Heiser oversees all aspects of RSA's business operations, including worldwide sales and services, channel strategy, product development, marketing, strategic business and financial initiatives, IT, and technical support. He joined RSA in July 2008 as Senior Vice President of Global Customer Operations and was promoted to COO in April 2010.
Heiser helped form EMC's Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division and was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company's Centera Business Unit, launching a new storage category and making Centera one of EMC's fastest-growing product lines. He also served as EMC's Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and New Ventures, leading the team responsible for mergers and acquisitions, including the acquisition of RSA in 2006. Earlier in his career he served as the product manager for EMC's first storage system, Orion, predecessor of the company's industry-leading Symmetrix systems.
Heiser joined EMC in 1984, upon college graduation, in the company's first sales-training class. Later that year, he opened EMC's first sales office in New York. In 1996, despite EMC's predominately direct sales model, Heiser established the company's first significant channel sales effort. Over the five years he ran the channel organization, sales grew from $8 million to more than $2 billion globally and the EMC partner network expanded to include resellers, VARs, ISVs, OEMs, and system integrators worldwide.
As EMC's fourteenth employee, Heiser is passionate about perpetuating the company's history and culture with employees and is an invaluable inspiration. He earned his bachelor's degree in accounting information systems from the University of Massachusetts.
January 2013
Rick Devenuti President, Information Intelligence Group

Rick Devenuti is President of the Information Intelligence Group (IIG), a division of EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
Devenuti was appointed to his current position in October 2010. In his role, Devenuti oversees all aspects of IIG's business including worldwide sales and services, channel strategy, product development, marketing, strategic business and financial initiatives, IT, technical support and the Total Customer Experience program. He previously served as the division's chief operating officer.
He joined EMC following a successful 19-year career at Microsoft Corporation. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of Microsoft Services and IT responsible for strategy and operational performance of Microsoft Enterprise Services, Customer Service and Support, Software-as-a-Service business and IT. In that role, he significantly expanded the Enterprise Services business, introduced support offerings resulting in improved customer satisfaction and launched Microsoft Managed Services, the company's first software-as-a-service offering for enterprise customers.
Devenuti joined Microsoft in 1987 and focused his career on creating and managing operational excellence. As chief information officer, he established metrics to measure IT value at Microsoft and integrated business processes and business acumen into IT, resulting in efficiency gains for end users and cost savings for the company. Before becoming CIO, Devenuti was vice president of worldwide operations where he directed all activities related to Microsoft product information and release management, manufacturing, distribution, and transaction processing. He also held numerous operational positions at Microsoft including general manager of North American operations, general manager of U.S. sales operations, director of financial analysis, controller and cost accounting manager. Prior to Microsoft, he spent four years at Deloitte Touche as a senior accountant.
Devenuti earned his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from University of Washington. He currently serves on the boards of directors for St. Jude Medical and Convergys Corporation.
January 2013
Brian Gallagher President, Enterprise Storage Division

Brian Gallagher is President of the Enterprise Storage Division of EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
Gallagher is one of EMC's longest-serving serving employees, having joined the company in 1985. He was named President of the Enterprise Storage Division in 2010 and leads an organization responsible for the architecture, design, development, support and marketing of some of EMC's most innovative and fastest growing products and software, including the industry leading Symmetrix VMAX family of virtual storage systems and the pioneering of EMC's VPLEX virtual storage technology. Gallagher is also responsible for EMC's Global Database Technology Strategy as well as the newly formed EMC Labs Brazil.
Prior to this role, Gallagher led the development of the EMC Direct Matrix (DMX) and Virtual Matrix Architecture (VMAX), the basis for the market leading Symmetrix storage systems, which are the most powerful, trusted, and intelligent storage systems. Gallagher spent 13 years as Vice President and then Senior Vice President of the Symmetrix Product Group, responsible for the hardware, software, quality assurance, and e-Lab organizations, including the development of mainframe and open systems host applications. Gallagher has been with EMC for more than 25 years and has been developing advanced information storage products for three decades. Prior to joining EMC, he developed disk and tape storage products for Wang Laboratories' VS Systems.
Gallagher received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University in Boston 1982 and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1990. He has been awarded 13 U.S. patents and has 10 patents pending.
January 2013
Guy Churchward President, Backup Recovery Systems

Guy Churchward is President of EMC's Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) Division at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
EMC's Backup Recovery Systems Division is focused on the development and delivery of next generation disk-based backup, recovery and archiving solutions. In his role, Churchward is responsible for leading the division's efforts to deliver innovative next-generation backup and recovery solutions that help users to transform IT as they migrate to cloud-based computing models.
Churchward has more than 27 years of experience in the IT industry, with broad international experience that spans executive management, engineering, sales, marketing and business development capacities. He joined EMC in May 2012 as Senior Vice President of Engineering of the BRS Division. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of LogLogic, an enterprise log and security intelligence platform company. Before that, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Data Protection Group at NetApp, where he was responsible for product strategy and development of the company's portfolio of disk-to-disk and disaster recovery products. Before joining NetApp, he was Vice President and General Manager of BEA's WebLogic Products Group. He also held senior management positions at Sun Microsystems (formerly Tarantella inc.), Santa Cruz Operations (Formerly IXI), Accenture (formerly Binder Hamlyn) and Olivetti.
Churchward holds an Executive MBA from Stanford Business School and studied Computer Science at Cambridge Tutors College, England.
January 2013
Rich Napolitano President, Unified Storage Division

Rich Napolitano is President of the Unified Storage Division at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
In his role, Napolitano oversees R&D, divisional product management and marketing, and operations for EMC's midrange storage platforms and advanced storage management products. Napolitano's division has engineering operations in eight countries worldwide. Its portfolio includes the award-winning VNXe™ and VNX™ system solutions; industry acclaimed Unisphere® Management Software, and value added storage software available as part of the division's replication and data protection software including storage software solutions.
With 30 years of experience in the IT industry, Napolitano has served in a wide variety of roles, including CEO, S/W developer, sales leader, entrepreneur, and board member ranging startups to global technology enterprises. Prior to joining EMC, he was President of U.S. Sales at Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle). He was also a general partner in the venture investment and management firm Alchemy Angels and an early investor in and CEO of Pirus Networks, a developer of intelligent storage switches, which was acquired by Sun. In addition, he founded several technology startups and consultancies, where he served as CEO, and which were later acquired by Adobe Systems and Adaptec. Napolitano started his career at Digital Equipment Corp as an operating system software developer.
He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the State University, Stony Brook, NY.
January 2013
Bill Richter President, Isilon Storage Division

Bill Richter is President of the Isilon Storage Division of EMC. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
As the leader of EMC's Isilon Storage Division, Richter oversees all aspects of Isilon's business including worldwide sales and services, channel strategy, product development, marketing, strategic business and financial initiatives, IT and technical support. The division's portfolio includes a range of industry-leading scale-out NAS storage products, all driven by the groundbreaking OneFS Operating System.
Prior to his current role, Richter was the CFO of Isilon Systems, a role in which he successfully defined and implemented strategies for rapid sales growth, operational scale and dramatic market expansion. After EMC acquired Isilon in 2010, Richter led the business integration of Isilon Systems and EMC and, since 2011, served as the VP of Finance and Business Operations for EMC's Mid-range storage products (the Isilon and Unified Storage Divisions).
Before joining Isilon in 2007, he held senior leadership positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Amazon. The Los Angeles-native graduated from the University of Washington's Foster School of Business with a bachelor's degree in Finance. He currently serves on the Board of the Washington Technology Industry Alliance.
January 2013
Amitabh Srivastava President, Advanced Software Division

Amitabh Srivastava is President, Advanced Software Division at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
In his role as President of EMC's Advanced Software Division, Srivastava oversees all aspects of ASD's business including product development, finance, marketing, sales, and product management. ASD is building innovative products that will help differentiate EMC storage products and expand them into new markets.
Srivastava has more than 28 years of experience in the industry. Prior to joining EMC in April 2011, Srivastava was Senior Vice President of Server and Cloud Division at Microsoft Corporation, where he was responsible for Windows Azure and Windows Server products. Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Srivastava was the founder and Chief Technology Officer of TracePoint Technology Inc. He started his career in research in 1984, working at Texas Instruments Research Labs in Dallas, Texas and Digital's Western Research Labs in Palo Alto, California. He holds 14 patents and has published a variety of papers. His paper on ATOM with Alan Eustace in PLDI 1994 received the Most Influential PLDI Paper Award in June 2005.
Srivastava earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and a master's degree in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur awarded him a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2004. The Pennsylvania State University named him an Outstanding Engineering Alumnus in 2004 and inducted him as an Alumni Fellow in 2009. Srivastava delivered the commencement address titled 'Fourth and Goal' in the College of Engineering graduation ceremonies at Pennsylvania State University in 2008.
January 2013
John F. Hanlon President, EMC Americas Sales and Customer Operations

John F. Hanlon is President, Americas Sales and Customer Operations at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and services providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
Hanlon is responsible for driving EMC's growth and market share leadership by delivering and supporting the full range of EMC's products, services and solutions to organizations in North and South America. He is also responsible for enhancing regional partner and channel relationships and ensuring that customer facing sales and service professionals in the regions understand and communicate the unique value that EMC brings to customers and business partners. As part of this mission, he focuses on driving coordination and teamwork among EMC's business unit sales forces. He is based at EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and reports to EMC President, Global Sales and Customer Operations Bill Scannell.
Hanlon has more than 15 years of industry and international experience in information management software and global sales and service. Since joining EMC in August 2000, John has held leadership roles including Vice President, Network Attached Storage Unit and Senior Vice President, Mid Market Sales. Under his leadership, EMC's Mid Market business has grown from $100 million to $1 billion in the U.S.
Prior to joining EMC, Hanlon led sales in EMEA and the U.S. for Parametric Technology Corporation, where he held various roles in sales and management including Vice President, Sales for the U.S. and Vice President, Sales for EMEA. Prior to joining the industry, he was a Naval Officer for seven years where he served in various capacities from sea duty to staff command.
Hanlon holds a Bachelors Degree in Maritime Engineering from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He is actively involved in the Boston College High School alumni community, supporting the school with mentoring and fundraising efforts.
January 2013
Adrian McDonald President, Europe, Middle East and Africa

Adrian McDonald is President, Europe, Middle East and Africa at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
McDonald was appointed to lead the EMEA region for EMC in July 2012. He is responsible for the company's overall revenue generation, management and business strategy in the region, which contributed more than a quarter of EMC consolidated global revenues in the second quarter of 2012. Based at EMC's UK & Ireland headquarters in Brentford, Middlesex, he ensures that EMC's Sales, Technology Solutions, Customer Service, and Partner/Alliance groups understand and communicate the unique value that EMC brings to its customers and business partners. He previously oversaw EMC's EMEA-North region.
From 2003 to 2011, he served as Senior Vice-President & General Manager for EMC's business in the UK & Ireland, a period of significant growth in the company's most mature international market when it became firmly established as a key contributor to EMC's revenues. His tenure was also characterised by a relentless focus on innovation, notably with a successful services- and solutions-led agenda which Adrian introduced and which continues to underpin the company's drive for market-share capture.
Since joining EMC in 1988, McDonald has held a variety of US-based, international and global positions at EMC. During the 1990s, Adrian helped to establish and then run many of EMC's international subsidiaries. After successfully running individual country operations, he was appointed Vice-President in 2000 and assumed leadership of EMC's Germany, East Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
He holds a BA degree with Honours in History and Politics from Warwick University and is a graduate of Columbia Business School.
January 2013
David Webster
President, Asia Pacific and Japan
Senior Vice President, EMC Corporation

David Webster is President, EMC Asia Pacific and Japan, a post he has held since July 2012. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
Webster is responsible for extending and further driving EMC's growth and continued leadership in APJ by delivering and supporting the full range of EMC's products, services and solutions in established and new markets; enhancing partner and channel relationships as well as furthering product development throughout the region. In 2011, EMC, with the help of its partners, generated more than $2.6 billion in revenue from Asia Pacific and Japan operations and now employs more than 10,000 information management and storage professionals in the region to help customers design, implement and realize the benefits of IT transformation, cloud computing, big data and trusted IT strategies. Reporting to Bill Scannell, EMC President of Global Sales and Customer Operations, Webster has more than 25 years of information technology experience across the Asia Pacific and Japan region.
Webster joined EMC in August 2005 as President, EMC Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), and in October 2010, assumed an expanded executive leadership position as President, EMC South East Asia (SEA) while continuing to lead the EMC business in ANZ. In his dual role, Webster achieved solid and strategic growth as well as oversaw the business and operational performance of both geographies under his common executive leadership. In addition to driving significant market share gains, tripling EMC's business and expanding the channel partner ecosystem for ANZ and SEA, Webster also led EMC's entry into the managed services business in ANZ.
Before EMC, Webster was Vice President and Managing Director at PeopleSoft Inc. in ANZ, leading the organization through significant business growth; acquisition, merger and integration activities as well as continuous organizational development and change. Prior to his tenure at PeopleSoft, Webster spent 12 years at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems in several senior management positions, of which the last four was spent as regional Managing Director for the SEA region.
January 2013
Joe Eazor Executive Vice President, COO, Global Sales and Customer Operations

Joe Eazor is Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Global Sales and Customer Operations at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
Eazor was appointed to the newly created position of COO, Global Sales and Customer Operations, to focus on sales strategy and managing key global sales functions to support EMC's business worldwide. In his role, Eazor has direct responsibility for global growth functions, including Alliances, Channels, Inside Sales, Global Accounts, OEM, Global Financial Services, and Mid-Tier, Software and Cloud Sales Specialist. Additionally, he is responsible for leading strategic, longer term go-to-market initiatives. Eazor previously oversaw the company's Global Accounts, working closely with EMC's largest customers to establish strategic business rationales for EMC solutions and to help their organizations maximize the benefits of EMC's technologies and services. He also oversees the OEM business to embed EMC technology into third-party IT solutions. He is based at EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
He joined EMC in 2011, from McKinsey & Co., where he was a senior partner and focused on large technology companies and consulted with EMC, a McKinsey client. Prior to that, Eazor was head of HP Enterprise Services, a $25 billion division with 130,000 employees worldwide. He joined HP in 2008, when the company acquired the leading services provider EDS, where Eazor led its acquisition negotiations and integration with HP over the subsequent two years. Before the merger, Eazor spent 15 prior years at EDS, where served in key strategic and executive roles, as General Manager/president of its Asia/Pacific Region while living in Shanghai, as General Manager of the global Business Process Outsourcing business, and as head of strategy and mergers and acquisitions. He joined EDS when the company acquired A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm, where he was a partner and served as a member of its board of directors. Prior to joining A.T. Kearney in 1990, he worked in the oil and gas industry and managed an oilfield reservoir simulator on a Cray supercomputer.
He has served on the board of Mphasis, a publicly traded company in India, the Asia Advisory Board of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and is involved with the global charity World Vision's efforts to bring clean water and economic development to remote villages in Mexico and around the world. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
January 2013
Vic Bhagat Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and Chief Information Officer

Vic Bhagat is Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and Chief Information Officer at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and more than 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT-as-a-Service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
A 30-year industry veteran, Bhagat joined EMC in January 2013 and is responsible for leading EMC's Information Technology, Global Centers of Excellence, Global Business Services and Indirect Procurement organizations. During his more than 20-year tenure at GE, Bhagat served as CIO for multiple GE organizations including GE Aviation Services, GE Global Growth and Operations, CNBC, GE Corporate, and GE India and Southeast Asia. Along the way, he not only drove the company's IT strategies, but managed large global shared service applications; built a technology center focused on high-end technology and digital solutions; and fueled GE's global innovation opening numerous Centers of Excellence focused on Big Data, digital analytics and digital strategies. Prior to joining EMC, Bhagat helped establish Accenture's worldwide Big Data analytics practice for Natural Resources.
Bhagat earned his Bachelor's degree in Information Management and Marketing from the University of Louisville and a diploma in Physics and Mathematics from Agra University in India. He previously served on several Advisory Boards including AT&T Utilities & Field Services and Fairfield University — School of Software Engineering, and worked closely with University of Connecticut's School of Business.
January 2013
John Roese Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

John Roese is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
As EMC's CTO, Roese leads EMC's Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company's technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC's executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC's technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT.
Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems.
Roese earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world's poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
January 2013
Irina Simmons Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer

Irina Simmons is Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, and Head of Worldwide Audit at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
Simmons oversees the company's enterprise risk program, responsible for developing and managing processes to identify, assess, monitor and reduce risks that could interfere with the achievement of the company's goals and objectives. She also manages the Worldwide Internal Audit function and is based at EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
Previously, Simmons was Treasurer of EMC, responsible for EMC's overall liquidity management, including interest rate, equity and foreign exchange risk management, the property/casualty insurance program, cash flow forecasting, as well as the management and investment of the company's approximately $10 billion in cash. She also managed EMC's global and investment banking relationships, and had responsibility for EMC's pension and 401(k) plans. In 1999 and 2005, under her leadership, EMC's Treasury Department received Treasury & Risk Management magazine's Alexander Hamilton Award for Cash Management.
Simmons joined EMC in 1995, after more than 15 years in treasury and finance at several Massachusetts technology companies. She 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 Computervision Corporation and Millipore Corporation.
Simmons serves on the Board of Trustees of UMASS Memorial Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she is Chairman of the Finance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. She also served 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. Simmons holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and French from Tufts University and an MBA from Boston University.
January 2013
Steve Leonard Senior Vice President

Steve Leonard is Senior Vice President. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
As Senior Vice President, Leonard works with EMC Vice Chairman Bill Teuber to help build out EMC's presence in emerging markets around the world. Previously, Leonard was responsible for driving EMC's growth and market share leadership in Asia Pacific & Japan, enhancing partner and channel relationships, and furthering product development throughout the region. Under Leonard's leadership over six years, EMC sales in APJ grew from $1.1B in 2006 to $2.6B in 2011. Also under Leonard's leadership, EMC's workforce in APJ grew to more than 7,000 information management and storage professionals in the region to help customers accelerate their journey to cloud computing. Leonard is based in Asia.
Leonard has more than 28 years of industry and international experience in information management software and global sales and service, with 23 of those years based in Asia or Europe. Prior to joining EMC in April 2006, he managed the Asia Pacific Japan operations for Symantec and Veritas. Prior to that executive management position, Leonard spent 18 years with EDS, where he focused on European and Asian operations for 12 of those years, ultimately rising to the position of President of Solutions Consulting for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Leonard holds a business degree from Southern Methodist University.
January 2013
Harry L. You Executive Vice President

Harry L. You is Executive Vice President of EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
You oversees EMC's corporate strategy and new business development, which includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and venture capital activity. He joined EMC in 2008. Previously, he was CEO of BearingPoint, a leading IT and management consultancy, with more than17,000 employees in 60 countries. Before that, he was CFO of Oracle Corporation, helping begin Oracle's acquisition run with the takeovers of Peoplesoft and Retek. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Oracle Japan. From 2001-2004, he was Chief Financial Officer of Accenture, helping take the company public and leading the company to 35% annual free cash flow growth. He spent fourteen years on Wall Street, culminating as a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley. There, he headed up the Computer and Business Services Group, originating and executing $200 billion of M&A and underwriting transactions.
You has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard and a Master of Arts in Economics from Yale. He is a member of the Yale School of Management Advisory Board and a member of the Board of Directors of Korn Ferry International, the world's largest executive search firm.
January 2013
Mike Koehler SVP EMC Global Services

Mike Koehler is Senior Vice President, EMC Global Services. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. 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.
Koehler manages EMC Global Services' broad portfolio of professional services, practices and delivery, as well as go-to-market execution, ensuring customers derive maximum benefit from their investments in EMC technology. As the leader of EMC's professional services team, Koehler is responsible for supporting EMC's continued leadership role in Cloud, Big Data, and Trusted IT by enabling its customers and partners on their IT transformation journey. He reports to Howard Elias, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services.
Before joining EMC in 2011, he was Senior Vice President for HP, where he was responsible for market expansion and improving revenue and profit throughout Canada, Latin America, and the U.S. Prior to HP, he served as a Executive Vice President of EDS, where he managed information technology outsourcing and business process outsourcing services across all geographic theaters, as well as for select global anchor accounts, and was instrumental in developing a go-to-market delivery model for global services across all geographies and industries. Following the acquisition of EDS by HP, he played a key role in the integration of the company's ITO and BPO businesses into the HP framework. He also served as COO and SVP of EDS's Europe Middle East and Africa business unit. Koehler also worked with the Feld Group and IBM Consulting.
He serves as a Director on the Board of Coresite (COR), chairing the Compensation Committee, and is a member of the Audit Committee. He also mentors and guides startup and emerging companies. He holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University.
January 2013