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DELL TECHNOLOGIES CEO BACKGROUND
Michael Dell
Michael Dell is chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies, an
innovator and technology leader providing the essential infrastructure for
organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most
important information.
With revenues of $94B and 158,000 team members, Dell Technologies is one of
the world’s largest IT companies serving the needs of global corporations and
governments to small businesses and consumers. The company's unique
structure allows innovative, fast-moving startups to co-exist with, and leverage, the
global reach and trusted reputation of the large enterprise.
Michael’s story started when he founded Dell Technologies with $1000 in 1984 at
the age of 19. Notably quoted as saying that “technology is about enabling human
potential,” Michael’s vision of how technology should be designed, manufactured
and sold forever changed the IT industry. In 1992, Michael became the youngest
CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500. Known and admired for his astute
business vision and bold moves, Michael took Dell Technologies private in 2013,
setting the stage to architect the largest technology deal in history with the
combination of Dell, EMC and VMware in 2016 and the subsequent relisting of
Dell Technologies on the public markets in 2018.
In 1998, Michael formed MSD Capital, a private investment
firm that exclusively manages the capital for the Dell family.
And in 1999, he and his wife, Susan Dell, established the
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to accelerate opportunity
for children growing up in urban poverty in the U.S., India
and South Africa.
Michael is an honorary member of the Foundation Board of
the World Economic Forum and is an executive committee
member of the International Business Council. He is also a
member of the Technology CEO Council and the Business
Roundtable. He serves on the advisory board of Tsinghua
University's School of Economics and Management in
Beijing, China and on the governing board of the Indian
School of Business in Hyderabad, India. He is a board
member of Catalyst and also served as the United Nations
Foundation's first Global Advocate for Entrepreneurship.
Dell Technologies is a Multinational Corporation
which is headquartered in the United States of
America. The company deals with computer
technology devices where it designs,
manufactures and distributes personal
computers and other complimentary products
and services. The company was formed in 1984
by Michael Dell and was initially referred to as
PCs Limited. When the company was formed,
they built the computers they sold from stock
components but made sure that the computers
were compatible with the IBM framework.
However, this was changed in 1985 when
they started selling their own computer
designs. The first computer model that the
company designed and sold in 1985 was
called Turbo PC. These first models were
custom assembled according to customer
requests. In order to market their
computers, the company advertised them
in computer magazines that had a national
outlook. The company was however
rebranded to Dell Inc. in the year 2003 in
order to recognize the fact that the
company had expanded beyond their initial
computer sales business.
Dell Technologies uses the power of the Dell Technologies infrastructure to
make hybrid cloud environments easier to manage. Built on VMware Cloud
Foundation, this Dell Technologies offering features a set of cloud infrastructure
solutions that provide a consistent operating model and simplified management
across private clouds, public clouds and edge locations. As a result, cloud
technology helps reduce barriers to cloud adoption and allows application and
business requirements to determine where workloads reside.