Irina Simmons is Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, and Head of Worldwide Audit at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $20 billion in 2011 and more than 53,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted, and cost-efficient way.

Simmons oversees the company's enterprise risk program, responsible for developing and managing processes to identify, assess, monitor, and reduce risks that could interfere with the achievement of the company's goals and objectives. She also manages the Worldwide Internal Audit function and reports to EMC General Counsel Paul Dacier.

Previously, Simmons was Treasurer of EMC, responsible for EMC's overall liquidity management, including interest rate, equity and foreign exchange risk management, the property/casualty insurance program, cash flow forecasting, as well as the management and investment of the company's approximately $10 billion in cash. She also managed EMC's global and investment banking relationships, and had responsibility for EMC's pension and 401(k) plans. In 1999 and 2005, under her leadership, EMC's Treasury Department received Treasury & Risk Management magazine's Alexander Hamilton Award for Cash Management.

Simmons joined EMC in 1995, after more than 15 years in treasury and finance at several Massachusetts technology companies. She was Assistant Treasurer at Lotus Development Corporation, and before that, Assistant Treasurer at Unitrode Corporation, a semiconductor firm. Prior to specializing in the treasury field, she held positions in finance at Computervision Corporation and Millipore Corporation.

Simmons serves on the Board of Trustees of UMASS Memorial Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she is Chairman of the Finance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. She also served on the Executive Board of the National Association of Corporate Treasurers (former Chairman), is a former President of the Boston Chapter of the Financial Executives International, and served on the Board of Trustees of Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. Simmons holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and French from Tufts University and an MBA from Boston University.

February 2012