Pat Gelsinger

Last September, EMC had two of its top executives get up and change chairs. Gelsinger was formerly EMC s COO running its most important tech unit. He changed seats with Paul Maritz who was VMware s CEO. Gelsinger is tasked with taking VMware into a brand new era of computing. VMware wants to dominate cloud computing and a new technology called software defined networking. SDN has the potential to completely change the way companies build their networks and VMware could swallow the lion s share of billions in new revenue that SDN is certain to create.