Richard egan emc biography

American businessman and diplomat (–)

Richard John Egan (February 28, – August 28, )^[1] was an American business executive, political fundraiser, and United States Ambassador to Ireland (–).

Career

Egan was born in Milton, Massachusetts, and attended high school in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. He was a helicopter crewman in the United States Marine Corps during the end of the Korean War, then received a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in and a master's at M.I.T.^[2] He later was on the team that helped develop Project Apollo memory systems for NASA, and worked at Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, and Intel before founding EMC Corporation.^[3]

In , he founded EMC with Roger Marino, who had been a classmate at Northeastern.

The two initially sold office furniture in order to raise money to build the company with only a handful of employees. EMC eventually became Massachusetts' largest technol