John Roese joins EMC as CTO

John Roese, a 20-year veteran in the IT industry, the former Senior Vice President and General Manager of Huawei’s North American R&D organization, has joined the board of EMC as Chief Technology Officer. Jeff Nick, who has served as EMC’s Chief Technology Officer for the last eight years, has transitioned to a new CTO role reporting to Paul Maritz, EMC’s Chief Strategist, focused on Big Data and emerging applications initiatives.   

John will be reporting to Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President of Product Operations and Marketing. In his new position, Roese will play a key role in shaping EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in the history of IT - Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT.

 Jeremy Burton said, “John brings to EMC a unique blend of experience spanning the entire breadth of IT systems from silicon all the way up through networking, storage, servers and virtualization. In addition, he’s directed product development in enterprise, carrier and consumer markets.  At heart, John is a true technologist, but he is also a proven strategist and general manager with extraordinary vision and operational expertise within very large, complex organizations. ”

John Roese commented, “The entire IT industry is in a period of rapid evolution towards radically more agile, scalable and user-centric computing.  EMC is ideally positioned in the center of this transformation with core strengths across Cloud, Big Data, and Trusted IT. I am excited and energized to join this great company at the beginning of this next exciting chapter for the global technology industry.” 

John started his career at Cabletron Systems where he grew within the company, ultimately becoming the global CTO. He has also served as the executive leader of Huawei’s Enterprise Global Competency Center, which provides Enterprise technology innovation and incubation as well as sales, marketing and operations support for Huawei’s Enterprise field sales and marketing teams worldwide. Prior to Huawei, he was CTO of Nortel. Prior to Nortel, he was a CTO at Broadcom Corporation and the CTO, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Security Officer of Enterasys Networks.