Paul T Dacier

Paul T. Dacier is Executive Vice President and General Counsel, and Assistant Secretary of EMC Corporation. With 2007 revenues of $13.2 billion and more than 37,000 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. Dacier is responsible for the worldwide legal affairs of EMC and its subsidiaries, and oversees the company’s internal audit, real estate and facilities organizations, as well as its government affairs and aviation departments. He joined EMC as Corporate Counsel in 1990 and was promoted to General Counsel in 1992, to Vice President in 1993, to Senior Vice President in 2000 and to Executive Vice President in 2006. Dacier is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Wisconsin. In 2003, Dacier was appointed by Governor Mitt Romney as a commissioner of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission and served through 2006. In 2006, Romney also appointed Dacier as the presiding officer in the proceedings to de-designate or remove, for cause, Matthew J. Amorello as chairperson of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Dacier is a past Chair and remains on the board of directors of the New England Legal Foundation, a business appellate advocacy group. Additionally, Dacier is a trustee of the Social Law Library, the oldest law library in the United States; has received numerous awards including being named one of the top 10 Massachusetts lawyers in 2005 by the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly; and has been profiled in The National Law Journal and Inside Counsel magazines. He is a past president of the Knox Trail Council, Boy Scouts of America. Prior to joining EMC, Dacier served as an attorney with increasing duties and responsibilities at the former Apollo Computer, Inc., a workstation manufacturer, from 1984 to 1990. Dacier received a B.A. in History in 1980 and a Juris Doctor in 1983 from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.