Richard J. Egan was a billionaire businessman and United States Ambassador to Ireland. In 2006, his net worth was estimated at $1.3 billion.
In 1979, he founded EMC with Roger Marino, his college roommate. The two initially sold office furniture in order to raise money to build the company with only a handful of employees. EMC eventually became Massachusetts's largest technology company and had more than 40,000 employees by 2009.
He passed away on August 28, 2009. His wife, Maureen, still owns this home.