Joe Tucci is the chairman of Bridge Growth Partners and the lead director of GTY Technology Holdings. Mr. Tucci serves as a founder and director of GTY Technology Holdings, and as former chairman and chief executive officer of EMC Corporation. He was EMC's chairman from January 2006 and CEO from January 2001 until September 2016, when Dell Technologies acquired the company.
Tucci led EMC through a dramatic revitalization and repeated market share gains, transforming EMC’s business model from what had been a near-exclusive focus on high-end storage platforms into a federation of businesses that grew to include EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA, VCE and Virtustream.
Before joining EMC, Tucci directed the financial and operational rebirth of Wang Global during six years as its chairman and CEO. Prior to joining Wang in 1990, Tucci was president of U.S. information systems for Unisys Corporation, a position he assumed after the 1986 merger of Sperry and Burroughs that created Unisys. He began his career as a systems programmer at RCA Corporation and earned a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College and a master’s degree in business policy from Columbia University.
Tucci served as one of 150 CEO members of The Business Roundtable and chaired its task force on education and the workforce. He was one of eight chief executives who steered the Technology CEO Council, the IT industry's leading public policy advocacy organization. He was one of 16 business leaders who forged and guided the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership. He is a member of the board of directors of Paychex, Inc.; a member of the board of overseers of Columbia Business School, Columbia University; a member of the board of trustees of Northeastern University; and an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.