EMC Corporation recently announced that 20-year IT industry veteran John Roese has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer. Reporting to Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President of Product Operations and Marketing, 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.

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.

Roese, with more than 20 years of IT industry leadership experience and 20 granted and pending patents, was most recently Senior Vice President and General Manager of Huawei’s North American R&D organization. He 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, the senior technology and R&D executive globally for the corporation, with functional responsibility for an R&D staff of 12,000 and an annual budget of $1.7B. Prior to Nortel, he was a CTO at Broadcom Corporation and the CTO, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Security Officer of Enterasys Networks. John started his career at Cabletron Systems where he grew within the company, ultimately becoming the global CTO.

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