Zane Rowe Moves from Apple to EMC

EMC announced that they hired Zane Rowe as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He was at Apple before.

EMC announced that Zane Rowe has joined the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer reporting to Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO. Rowe now assumes all internal and external financial responsibilities for EMC’s consolidated business.

Prior to joining EMC, Rowe was in a long 19-year financial and corporate strategy career first at Continental Airlines where he rose to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following that, he was CFO at United Continental Holdings, Inc. Analysts surveyed by Institutional Investor magazine named Rowe one of the top two CFOs in the airline industry.

Following United Continental Holdings, Rowe joined Apple where he served as head of North America Sales reporting directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Zane Rowe was only 2 years at Apple and left in May.

Tucci commented, “Zane brings to EMC a unique blend of extremely valuable skills and experience both as a world-class CFO in complex, multi-business environments and as a highly- accomplished corporate strategist. We look forward to having Zane as a key member of the EMC executive leadership team.

Rowe says “I am incredibly excited to join EMC at this unprecedented time in IT history. EMC has built, and continues to build, tremendous long-term value for stakeholders. EMC and the power of the EMC federation are unique enablers for this transformation, and it’s my great pleasure to work alongside many of the industry’s most respected leaders.”

Apple replaced Zane Rowe with Doug Back back in May.