William “BJ” Jenkins, a 13-year EMC veteran, has been appointed as president of EMC’s Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) division where he most recently served as the division’s chief of staff. Mr Jenkins replaces Frank Slootman who served as the president of the business unit since 2009. Mr Slootman will remain in a formal advisory capacity to EMC and to the company’s BRS division, continuing to help guide EMC’s next-generation backup and recovery initiatives. Both executives will report into Pat Gelsinger, president and chief operating officer of EMC’s information infrastructure products business.

With more than 15 years of IT experience, Jenkins, will leverage his diverse and deep expertise across EMC and the information technology industry to move forward EMC’s fast-growing BRS business. Central to this mission is the continued pursuit of innovation and helping EMC and its partners bring to market backup and recovery solutions that address customers’ top priorities as the rapid growth of information and data accelerate and organisations shift to cloud computing architectures.

Pat Gelsinger said, “EMC has built one of the deepest, most accomplished executive leadership teams in the IT industry. Among this talented group, we are extremely fortunate to have a leader of BJ’s caliber, industry track record and technology vision to lead EMC’s fast-growing Backup Recovery Systems business. BJ’s extensive knowledge of the information technology industry, long-standing relationships with our customers and ability to drive business growth are great advantages for EMC.”

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