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Rick Devenuti

Director & Member, Audit Committee of St. Jude Medical

Rick Devenuti is President of the Information Intelligence Group (IIG), a division of EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Devenuti was appointed to his current position in October 2010. In his role, Devenuti oversees all aspects of IIG’s business including worldwide sales and services, channel strategy, product development, marketing, strategic business and financial initiatives, IT, technical support and the Total Customer Experience program. He previously served as the division’s chief operating officer. He joined EMC following a successful 19-year career at Microsoft Corporation. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Microsoft Services and IT responsible for strategy and operational performance of Microsoft Enterprise Services, Customer Service and Support, Software-as-a-Service business and IT. In that role, he significantly expanded the Enterprise Services business, introduced support offerings resulting in improved customer satisfaction and launched Microsoft Managed Services, the company’s first software-as-a-service offering for enterprise customers. Devenuti joined Microsoft in 1987 and focused his career on creating and managing operational excellence. As chief information officer, he established metrics to measure IT value at Microsoft and integrated business processes and business acumen into IT, resulting in efficiency gains for end users and cost savings for the company. Before becoming CIO, Devenuti was vice president of worldwide operations where he directed all activities related to Microsoft product information and release management, manufacturing, distribution, and transaction processing. He also held numerous operational positions at Microsoft including general manager of North American operations, general manager of U.S. sales operations, director of financial analysis, controller and cost accounting manager. Prior to Microsoft, he spent four years at Deloitte Touche as a Senior Accountant. Devenuti earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from University of Washington. He currently serves on the Boards Of Directors for St. Jude Medical and Convergys Corporation.

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