EMC executive David Goulden said there’s more to gain than lose from the company’s unusual corporate structure, and that breaking it up is “the wrong thing to do.”
In an interview at our Code/Enterprise Series: New York event at the Steelcase WorkLife Center on Sept. 29, Goulden, who is CEO of EMC’s information infrastructure unit, gave no hints regarding how EMC may respond in the coming weeks to pressure from Elliott Management, an activist hedge fund that has pushed the company to divest its controlling stake in the software company VMware.
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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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