SAN FRANCISCO—Pat Gelsinger, a longtime Intel Corp. executive who has been president and chief operating officer at EMC Corp. since 2009, was appointed CEO of virtualization software vendor VMware Inc. Tuesday (July 17) by EMC, VMware's parent company.
Gelsinger held several high-level executive positions at Intel, including chief technology officer, during a 30-year career at the No. 1 chip vendor that began in 1979.
He left Intel for EMC in 2009, when Intel announced a number of senior management changes.
Gelsinger replaces Paul Maritz, VMware's current CEO, who will join EMC as chief strategist effect Sept. 1, EMC said. Gelsinger was also appointed to VMware's board of directors.
EMC (Hopkinton, Mass.), a provider of data storage products and services, also announced that David Goulden, executive vice president and chief financial officer, was appointed to take Gelsinger's place as president and COO of EMC.
"Pat Gelsinger's leadership and technology vision have both transformed and strengthened EMC's broad product portfolio since his arrival," said Joe Tucci, EMC's chairman and CEO, in a statement. "Pat's unique experience in understanding how software can add value to standard hardware building blocks, as well as his deep understanding of the x86 partner ecosystem and his track record running large scale organizations make him the natural choice to further enhance VMware's competitive positioning and lead VMware through its next phase of growth."
EMC also announced its preliminary second quarter, including sales of $5.31 billion, up 10 percent compared to the year-ago quarter. The company said it continues to expect to achieve its full-year 2012 sales goal of $22 billion.