Howard Elias President, Global Services and IT, Dell/EMC

The below email was sent by Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, Dell Inc., to all Dell global team members on April 11, 2016, and publisd in a SEC filing.

Update on executive leadership team for future combined company

Last month, we announced a definitive agreement for NTT DATA to acquire Dell Services, which includes business process outsourcing, application management and infrastructure services. Upon close, the combination of NTT DATA and Dell Services will provide tremendous value for Dell Services customers, team members and partners.

Dell will continue to provide its customers global support, deployment and professional services aligned to our client solutions and enterprise systems businesses.

Following the completion of the Dell+EMC transaction, the Dell and EMC II services capabilities will be combined to form an industry-leading global technology services organization to support customers’ migration from today’s platforms to tomorrow’s technologies and solutions. In addition, the combined Dell and EMC II internal IT organizations will be a showcase for our customers as we help them on their journey to modernize, automate and transform their IT environments and build their digital future.

As we prepare for the largest technology combination in history, I am pleased to announce an update to the leadership of our future company, following the message shared in early March:

Howard D. Elias will be president, global services and IT, supporting our client solutions and enterprise systems business units and our enterprise, commercial, and consumer and small business customers. He will be responsible for global support and deployment, consulting services, technology professional services, and the combined Dell and EMC II internal IT organization.

Rory Read will continue in his role as chief integration officer for the Dell+EMC integration.

The global services organization will provide strategic guidance and technology expertise to help customers drive value through IT innovation with a focus on an exceptional total customer experience. The IT organization will encompass the people, technology and systems to deliver the most modern IT experience for our team members, customers and partners. Dell.com and Premiere, our eCommerce engines, will remain in the operations and client solutions organization, and support our consumer and small business, commercial and enterprise go-to-market segments. The website infrastructure will be administered by the IT organization.

These appointments will become effective immediately upon close of the transaction with EMC. Until then, Howard continues in his current role at EMC responsible for global enterprise services as well as continuing to partner with Rory leading the value creation and integration office.

We are continuing to make decisions on the future combined business and will keep you updated on our progress. There are still critical decisions to be made about a number of important areas of our new company and much of that work is still ongoing.

I am excited about the progress we are making to combine Dell and EMC, and even more excited about unleashing our unmatched capabilities, solutions and services to help our customers achieve their goals.

Thank you for your hard work and staying focused on serving our customers and partners.

Read also:
Executives for Dell|EMC Combined Company
Jeremy Burton, CMO, Howard Elias and Rory Read, co-chief integration officers, Dave Goulden, president, enterprise systems group
2016.03.02 | Press Release