Paul T. Dacier is Executive Vice President and General Counsel, and Assistant Secretary of EMC Corporation. With 2005 revenues of $9.7 billion, and more than 27,000 employees worldwide, EMC is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information management and storage that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle.
Dacier is responsible for the worldwide legal affairs of EMC and its subsidiaries, and oversees the company's 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. He is immediate past Chair of the New England Legal Foundation and remains on its board of directors. Additionally, Dacier is trustee of the Social Law Library, the oldest law library in the United States; was named one of the top 10 Massachusetts lawyers in 2005 by the Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly; and in early 2006, was profiled in The National Law Journal. 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. |