Hoover's Leadership 100
May 8, 2007
Welcome to the Leadership 100, a monthly list which highlights the CEOs from the most searched-for companies on Hoover's (as presented in the Hoover's Index). The Leadership 100 provides insight on their bios, company affiliations, work highlights, and salaries. This month get to know these executives and the companies they work for:
Edward D. Breen Jr., Age 51
Chairman and CEO, Tyco International Ltd.
Edward D. Breen is chairman and chief executive officer of Tyco International Ltd. Breen has been chairman and CEO of Tyco since July 2002 after serving as president and chief operating officer of Motorola, Inc. He began his career at Motorola in January 2000 when General Instrument Corporation - where he had served as chairman, president and CEO - merged with Motorola. After the merger, Breen became the executive vice president of Motorola and president of Motorola's Broadband Communications Sector (BCS), where he succeeded in quickly integrating the two companies' cable businesses. He subsequently headed the company's Networks Sector. Breen was named Motorola president and chief operating officer-elect in October 2001, and assumed the role of president and COO in January 2002. As chairman and CEO of General Instrument, Breen is credited with making the cable equipment-manufacturer the leader in the industry, with its cutting-edge digital set-top boxes and digital programming distribution services. Between 1994 and 1997, Breen was president of the Broadband Networks Group for General Instrument, president of Eastern Operations for the communications Division, and served as executive vice president of Terrestrial Systems. From 1988 to 1994, as senior vice president of sales, Breen was responsible for the terrestrial products worldwide sales organization. This included overseeing sales personnel and activities in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Breen originally joined General Instrument in 1978. In December 1999, Breen was ranked one of the top fifteen of CableFAX Magazine's 100 most influential people in cable. In 1998, Breen won the National Cable Television Association's Vanguard Award for high achievers in cable. He is a director of Comcast Corporation. Breen is a graduate of Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Economics. He is married with three children and lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Source: Company Web Site, 2007
Joseph M. (Joe) Tucci, Age 59
Chairman, President, and CEO, EMC Corporation
Joe Tucci is Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation. Tucci has been EMC's Chairman since January 2006 and President and CEO since January 2001, one year after he joined the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. Headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, with more than 31,000 employees operating in more than 50 countries, 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. EMC reported revenues of $11.2 billion in 2006. Its current market capitalization places it among the 10 most valuable information technology product companies in the world. Since his arrival at EMC, Tucci has led EMC through a period of dramatic revitalization, continued market share gains, and sustained double-digit growth. He has transformed EMC's business model from what was a near exclusive focus on high-end storage platforms to what is now the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of best-of-breed platforms, software, services, and solutions that enable organizations to implement information lifecycle management, aligning their IT infrastructure with their business based on the changing value of their information. Today, EMC operates with a balanced product portfolio in which software and services generate more than 50% of its annual revenues and hardware less than 50%. EMC has evolved with its market from an information management and storage company to a provider of open information infrastructure. Over the past several years, Tucci has overseen the most aggressive new-product introduction cycles in the company's history, led EMC into multi-platform open software for storage, information, and content management, expanded the company's marketplace beyond the enterprise to commercial and small-medium businesses, broadened the company's industry alliances, and established new selling, partnership, and distribution channels. Concurrently, he has spearheaded the investment of more than $4 billion (since 2003) in strategic software acquisitions aimed at filling out EMC's product portfolio, entering new market segments, and expanding the company's addressable market opportunity. Over this period he has strengthened EMC's management team with the integration of executives from other major technology companies. In addition, he has championed EMC's use of Six Sigma to improve its business processes and engaged employees in the Total Customer Experience, EMC's commitment to consistently exceed customers' expectations for quality, service, innovation and interaction. Acknowledging EMC's rejuvenation, the editors of Business Week named Tucci one of Corporate America's best senior managers of 2004. Before joining EMC, Tucci directed the financial and operational rebirth of Wang Global during six years as its Chairman and CEO. At Wang, he guided the company through a rapid and successful emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and transformed the company from a midrange computer manufacturer into a worldwide leader in networked technology services and solutions. Under his leadership, Wang acquired and integrated ten companies from 1995 through 1999, and its market capitalization more than tripled. In June 1999, Wang was acquired by Getronics NV. 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 holds a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College and an MS in Business Policy from Columbia University. Tucci is a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He is one of 150 CEO members of The Business Roundtable and the former chairman of its Task Force on Education and the Workforce. He is one of nine chief executives who steer The Technology CEO Council, the IT industry's leading public policy advocacy organization, and is a member of the Executive Committee of TechNet, a network of CEOs who work to advance the U.S.'s global leadership in innovation. In addition, Tucci is a member of the Board of Directors of Paychex, Inc., a member of the Board of Advisors of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, a member of the Board of Overseers of Northeastern University, a member of the Advisory Board of Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China, and an Overseer, Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Source: Company Web Site, 2007
Rex W. Tillerson, Age 54
Chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil Corporation
Rex W. Tillerson is chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation. A native of Wichita Falls, Texas, Mr. Tillerson earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin before joining Exxon Company, U.S.A. in 1975 as a Production Engineer. He held several engineering, technical and supervisory assignments in the EUSA Production Department throughout Texas and in 1987, was named Business Development Manager in the EUSA Natural Gas Department, where his responsibilities included developing long-range plans for commercialization of Alaska and Canadian Beaufort Sea gas. In 1989 he became general manager of EUSA's Central Production Division, responsible for oil and gas production operations throughout a large portion of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas. Mr. Tillerson moved to Dallas in 1992 as Production Advisor to Exxon Corporation and then to Florham Park, New Jersey as Coordinator of Affiliate Gas Sales in Exxon Co., International. Three years later he was named president of Exxon Yemen Inc. and Esso Exploration and Production Khorat Inc., and in January 1998 became VP of Exxon Ventures (CIS) Inc. and president of Exxon Neftegas Limited. In those roles, he was responsible for Exxon's holdings in Russia and the Caspian Sea as well as the Sakhalin I Consortium operations offshore Sakhalin Island, Russia. In December 1999 he became EVP of ExxonMobil Development Company. Mr. Tillerson was named SVP of Exxon Mobil Corporation in August 2001, and was elected President of the Corporation and member of the board of directors on March 1, 2004. He assumed his current position January 1, 2006. Mr. Tillerson is a member of the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute, the US-Russia Business Council, the United Negro College Fund, the board of trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America, a member of the Engineering Foundation Advisory Council for the University of Texas at Austin and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Source: Company Web Site, 2006
