Jeffrey Nick

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Jeffrey M. Nick has been Chief Technology Officer at EMC Corporation since September 2004. He has a major role in the direction of EMC's technology strategy and in the evolution and advancement of EMC's information infrastructure capabilities, related platforms, software, and services. He holds more than 50 U.S. patents in computer systems technology.

Nick was formerly best known as an IBM Fellow, considered to be the highest honor a technologist at IBM can achieve, and as Chief Architect for IBM's Project eLiza and grid computing initiative, responsible for distributed systems technical strategy across IBM’s eServer family of computer systems. He joined IBM in 1980 as a developer in the S/390 MVS operating system, having received graduated a Bachelor of Science degree from Marist College.

Nick has served on the Global Grid Forum Steering Committee representing the Architecture area, and has been a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.