Rainer Erlat is the President of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). With 2008 revenues of $14.9 billion and approximately 40,000 employees, EMC is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.

In this role, he is responsible for driving EMC’s growth and continued leadership throughout both established and new markets by delivering and supporting the full range of EMC’s products, services and solutions for information storage and management to organizations across the EMEA region.

Reporting to Bill Teuber, EMC’s Vice Chairman, Erlat leads EMC’s EMEA-based sales and services organization, incorporating more than 2,700 information storage professionals in 28 countries.

An accomplished 25 year veteran of the information technology industry, Rainer Erlat joined EMC in January 2003 from Hewlett-Packard (HP) where he spent twenty-two years in various customer facing management positions. Most recently, he was Vice President and General Manager of sales for the EMEA Enterprise Systems Group at HP. Prior to joining HP in 1979, Erlat, a native of Germany, studied general management and organization at the University of Augsburg, Germany.

February 2009