Rainer Erlat is the Senior Vice President of Europe, Middle East and Africa. 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 Dave DeWalt, Executive Vice President of Customer Operations, Erlat leads EMC's EMEA-based sales and services organization, incorporating more than 2,700 information storage professionals in 28 countries. The EMEA region represents approximately 25% of EMC's total worldwide revenue in 2003.
An accomplished 25 years 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. |