Joe Tucci Board’s Director, Motorola Solutions

Motorola Solutions, Inc. elected Joe Tucci to its board of directors.

Former chairman and CEO of EMC Corporation, he led the company through a transformation and revitalization, moving its business model from a focus on high-end storage platforms into a federation of businesses with leadership in information storage, protection and security, infrastructure virtualization and cloud management and orchestration.

He currently is co-CEO and co-chairman of a special purpose acquisition company, GTY Technology Holdings.

“Joe has decades of deep experience in the information technology sector,” said Greg Brown, chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions. “Under his leadership, EMC grew impressively by organic means and through several very strategic acquisitions such as VMware. Additionally, Joe built one of the best enterprise sales forces in the country. I am thrilled to have him on our board.”

Tucci helped forge and guides the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and serves on the boards of Bridge Growth Partners; Paychex, Inc.; Columbia Business School; Northeastern University; Boston Symphony Orchestra; and the National Academy Foundation. He previously was chairman and CEO of Wang Global, was president of U.S. information systems for Unisys Corporation, and began his career as a systems programmer at RCA Corporation.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College and a master’s degree in business policy from Columbia University.