EMC Corporation

Richard J. Egan was an American engineer, businessman, political fundraiser and US Ambassador to Ireland. A year after receiving a degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 1962, he was on the team that helped develop Project Apollo memory systems for NASA. He was a major... donor to the state-of-the-art Egan Engineering and Science Research Center on Northeastern's campus. He served as helicopter crewman in the United States Marine Corps during the end of the Korean War, he worked at Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, and Intel before founding EMC Corporation. In 1979, he founded EMC with Roger Marino, his college roommate. The two initially sold office furniture in order to raise money to build the company with only a handful of employees. EMC eventually became Massachusetts's largest technology company and had more than 40,000 employees by 2009. In 1994, Inc. Magazine named Egan "Master Entrepreneur of the Year." He also received the Medal of Honor Society's Patriot Award, the Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award and was one of Irish America magazine's "Top 100.
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Joseph M. Tucci, more popularly known as Joe Tucci, is Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation.... Tucci has been EMC's Chairman since January 2006 and President and CEO since January 2001, one year after he joined the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. Before joining EMC, Tucci directed the financial and operational rebirth of Wang Laboratories during six years as its Chairman and CEO. Tucci is also a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology . Tucci received his bachelor's degree in marketing from Manhattan College, and an MS in Business Policy from Columbia University. While CEO of EMC in 2009, Joseph M. Tucci earned a total compensation of $9,047,763, which included a base salary of $872,308, a cash bonus of $1,068,420, stocks granted of $5,995,800, and options granted of $962,085.
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