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Tom Heiser appointed President of RSA, The Security Division of EMC
February 2011 by Marc Jacob
EMC Corporation has named Tom Heiser, a 26 year veteran of EMC, as president of RSA, the Security Division of EMC. . Heiser will continue to report to Coviello.
Heiser joined EMC in 1984 as a sales trainee and rose to increasingly senior sales and business management positions. During his twenty plus year career with the company he has played a key role in EMC’s evolution into a broad-based information infrastructure leader, including being directly involved in the formation of EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division. He also served as EMC’s Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and New Ventures, leading the team responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions and New Business Development. Heiser becomes only the fourth person to lead the RSA business since the founding of the original RSA Data Security in 1982.
As Executive Chairman of RSA, Coviello will continue to drive strategy for the division and be an active and visible presence at RSA and across EMC’s businesses. A well-known industry evangelist, Coviello joined RSA in 1995 as Chief Operating Officer, became President in 1999 then CEO in 2001 and has been a driving force in its rapid growth, increasing revenue from $25 million in 1995 to more than $700 million in 2010. Since the EMC acquisition in 2006, the company has evolved as a leading provider of security, compliance and risk management solutions.
