John Roese CTO, EMC

EMC Corporation announced that 20-year IT industry veteran John Roese has joined the company as CTO.

Reporting to Jeremy Burton, EVP of Product Operations and Marketing, Roese will play a 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.

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 GM with extraordinary vision and operational expertise within very large, complex organizations. I am thrilled to welcome John to EMC."

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."

Jeff Nick, who has served as EMC’s CTO 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 experience and 20 granted and pending patents, was most recently SVP and GM 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, CMO 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.

Roese is also founding partner of ICT Advisory Group LLC, an author, frequent keynoter at industry conferences and has served on numerous technology company and industry boards.