Susan Permut is the former Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary at EMC Corporation, a $25 billion global technology company, where she worked for 23 years, until its merger with Dell Technologies. EMC’s products and services accelerated the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments store, manage, protect and analyze their information in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.
Susan is currently consulting and advising Boards and management of public companies on high profile corporate governance matters. She is also an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Law, where she teaches corporate governance. Susan has received numerous awards and recognitions in the corporate governance field.
Susan serves on the advisory boards of both Northeastern University School of Law’s NuLawLab and Elon University School of Law. She is a member of the AJC New England Leadership Board and the Board of Advisors of the Society for Corporate Governance (Eastern New England Chapter). She previously served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Corporate Governance (National), the Council of Institutional Investors and the Association of Corporate Counsel (Northeast Chapter) and the Board of Trustees of Dean College.
Prior to joining EMC, Susan was an attorney at Damon Corporation in Needham, MA, and practiced law at Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault in Boston and Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, CA.
Susan received a B.S. from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.