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Roger M. Marino co-founded one of the most successful companies in the computer industry, EMC Corporation. After earning his engineering degree from Northeastern University in 1961, Mr. Marino worked as a circuit designer at RCA Storage Systems in Burlington. Later, he was a salesman for a memory products company. In 1979, he and classmate Richard Egan decided to start EMC Corporation, which designs and manufactures computer storage products. Mr. Marino retired from EMC in 1992 to pursue a number of business ventures related to his lifelong interest in sports and recreation.
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| Currently, the Chairman of Marino Media, he will be producing a film to be shot in Italy later this year, "Bentornato Lorenzo Primavera", a story of a young man coaching American football in Italy. He was the principal owner of the NHL hockey team the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Worcester Ice Cats, a professional minor-league hockey team. Mr. Marino has always maintained close ties to Northeastern. A Northeastern University trustee, Mr. Marino supported NortheasternŐs Centennial Campaign, which went toward the cost of building a state-of-the-art recreation center, has become the University's signature building on Huntington Avenue. Mr. Marino also serves Northeastern as a Director of The National Council, a benefactor in The Huntington Society, and a member of the Centennial Campaign Cabinet; is a Co-Chair for the American Liver Foundation and the Dana Farber Cancer Fund. He endows two annual scholarships at Revere High School. Mr. Marino is a Founding Director of The Gorbachev Foundation of North America. |
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