Richard J. Egan (1936 – August 28, 2009) was an American engineer, businessman, political fundraiser and US Ambassador to Ireland.
A year after receiving a degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 1962, he was on the team that helped develop Project Apollo memory systems for NASA. He was a major donor to the state of the art Egan Engineering and Science Research Center on Northeastern's campus. He served as helicopter crew...
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Richard J. Egan (1936 – August 28, 2009) was an American engineer, businessman, political fundraiser and US Ambassador to Ireland.
A year after receiving a degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 1962, he was on the team that helped develop Project Apollo memory systems for NASA. He was a major donor to the state of the art Egan Engineering and Science Research Center on Northeastern's campus. He served as helicopter crewman in the United States Marine Corps during the end of the Korean War, he worked at Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, and Intel before founding EMC.
In 1979, he founded EMC with Roger Marino, his college roommate. 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's largest technology company and had more than 40,000 employees by 2009.
In 1994, Inc. Magazine named Egan "Master Entrepreneur of the Year." He also received the Medal of Honor Society...
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