Mary L Krakauer

Krakauer retired as VP, chief information officer of Dell/EMC Corporation in early 2017, where she had been responsible for global IT, including all operations and integration activity. She joined EMC in 2008 from Hewlett Packard where she held various leadership positions. She currently serves on the board of Mercury Systems Inc., a commercial provider of secure sensor and safety critical mission processing subsystems. M L Krakauer is EVP of Human Resources at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $24.4 billion in 2014 and more than 68,000 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. Krakauer leads EMC's global Human Resources practice to ensure the availability of world-class talent to drive EMC's success. Her responsibilities include executive, leadership, and employee development; compensation and benefits; staffing; and all of the people-related aspects of acquisition integration. She is based at EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Previously, she led Technology Services & Solutions and Managed Services in EMC Global Services. She has extensive experience across the business as a general manager and as a functional leader, both in the field and at corporate, in services, product manufacturing and logistics, offer creation, marketing and sales, both direct and with partners. As a general manager, she has led complex, global organizations as large as $4.5 billion in revenues and 19,500 people. Krakauer joined EMC in 2008 from HP, where she held multiple executive leadership roles leading HP's Global Enterprise Services Imaging & Printing business, and HP's Technology Services Division and Customer Support Services Division, both in the Americas. Prior to that, she was at Compaq, Digital Equipment and other technology companies, after beginning her career in manufacturing at Corning. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.