Hardware and software vendor Dell said it has hired two people to key positions in its enterprise sales and technology departments.
Rory Read, who was the CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, will be the chief operating offier and president of worldwide commercial sales. He will have overall responsibility for market initiation and all channel sales planning
Paul Perez formerly worked at Cisco where he was VP and genera manager of the firm’s computing systems product group. In his role at Dell, Perez will be the chief technical advisor for its enterprise solutions group.
Perez starts at Dell’s HQ today, while Read will join the company on April 6th next.
Both will report to Marius Haas,who is the chief commercial officer at Dell.
Michael Dell was wheeled out to welcome Read and Perez to the good ship Dell. He said they will add enterprise IT expertise and depth to Dell’s management team.
Read said: “Dell is one of the most exciting companies in the industry right.” He said Dell is the only credible end to end IT company.
