Chuck Hollis
Vice President
Technology Alliances
EMC

A 13-year EMC veteran, Chuck leads EMC's Technology Alliances organization, whose charter is to build strong partnerships that deliver customers superior multi-vendor solutions.

Prior to his current role, Chuck was EMC's VP of Strategic Marketing, where he helped map out key aspects of EMC's transformation strategy, messaging and field execution.

Chuck has also been EMC's VP of Storage Platforms Marketing, responsible for EMC's overall platform product strategy and offerings across all major market segments. Chuck has also had significant field roles, including Director of Sales Operations, leading the Professional Services and Systems Engineering organizations for EMC in Europe.

Chuck originally came to EMC as part of an initial team to help EMC enter the open systems market. Since then, he has been at the forefront of many of EMC's go-to-market initiatives, including specific application markets (ERP, NT and DW) as well as storage-based initiatives (Enterprise Storage, storage software and Enterprise Storage Networks).

Prior to EMC, Chuck worked at several UNIX and database companies in Silicon Valley. Chuck has received degrees in Computer Science and Economics from University of California at Santa Cruz.

Chuck writes a popular industry blog, which can be found at http://chucksblog.emc.com