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Irina Simmons is Senior Vice President and Treasurer of EMC Corporation. With 2005 revenues of $9.7 billion and more than 27,000 employees worldwide, EMC is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information management and storage that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, at every point in the information lifecycle.
Responsible for EMC's overall risk and liquidity management, Simmons oversees interest rate, equity, foreign exchange, and property/casualty risk as well as the management and investment of the company's more than $7 billion in cash. Simmons manages EMC's global and investment banking relationships, including cash and debt management and cash flow forecasting. She is also responsible for EMC's pension and 401K plans.
Simmons joined EMC in 1995, after accumulating more than 15 years of experience in treasury and finance at several Massachusetts technology companies. Simmons 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 Millipore Corporation and Computervision Corporation.
Simmons serves on the Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee, the Finance Committee (Chairman), the Investment Sub-Committee, and the Development Committee at Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. She also serves on the Executive Board of the National Association of Corporate Treasurers (former Chairman), is an Officer and Director of the Boston Chapter of the Financial Executives International, and on the Editorial Board of Treasury Management International (TMI), a publication of Charterhouse Communications in the UK.
In 1999 and 2005, under Simmons' leadership, EMC's Treasury Department received Treasury & Risk Management magazine's "Alexander Hamilton Award for Cash Management."
Simmons holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and French from Tufts University and an MBA from Boston University. | 