Par Botes is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Asia Pacific & Japan region for EMC Corporation, where he is involved in the evolution and advancement of EMC's information lifecycle management capabilities, related platforms, software, and services. With 2006 revenues of $11.2 billion and more than 31,000 employees, EMC is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.

Reporting directly to Steven Leonard, President EMC Asia Pacific & Japan and Jeff Nick, EMC’s Chief Technology Officer, Par is responsible for technical strategy in Asia Pacific and Japan for EMC's entire product portfolio including Storage, Backup/Recovery/Archiving and Security. He works closely with EMC's Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company's evolving technology vision and technology strategy, as well as working with the industry on standards. Par also works directly with EMC customers and leading technologists within EMC's platforms, software, and services organizations to develop future product directions.

Par joined EMC in 2007, with over 17 years of IT experience specializing in online transactional systems, very large data bases, networking, storage technologies and data protection. He is named as inventor on 18 patents pending with the US Patent Office and is a frequent industry speaker on system and storage architecture and large scale commercial systems. Par is based in Singapore.

Prior to joining EMC, Par was the Director Technology Strategy, Data Center Management Group at Symantec and VERITAS, where he also held a number of management roles in the areas of data protection and storage management. Prior to Symantec, Par spent eight years with Sun Microsystems, working with Sun's Global 500 customers and partners, establishing practices for commercial benchmarking and system models for next generation system architectures. Prior to joining SUN Microsystems, Par established himself in the area of SMP kernels, compilers and Enterprise Storage Systems with Data General, which has since been acquired by EMC. Par has a degree in Telecommunications from his native home of Stockholm, Sweden.

March 2007