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Alison Gardner Director Customer Insights, PC Product Group Dell Global |
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Alison Gardner is the Director of Customer Insights for the Dell PC Product Group. In this role, Alison directs Customer Advisory Councils across the globe, integrating these critical insights with product and solution plans across the End User Computing group. Alison has 19 years of product marketing and brand strategy experience, with 14 years at Dell in global product, messaging and leadership roles. Alison is driven by her passion for technology, innovation and extraordinary customer experiences. YOUR VPs |
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Neil Hand
Vice President, Dell Tablet Group Dell Global |
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Neil Hand serves as active vice president for Dell’s Worldwide Tablet Group. In this role Neil leads Windows 8 tablet and related offerings. Neil has held vice president roles in worldwide consumer marketing, enterprise systems marketing and product management. Notable computing product brands under Neil’s leadership have included the success of Dell’s, commercial OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks, Rugged, Alienware systems and Precision workstations. A 20-year Dell veteran, Mr. Hand helped develop the business plan, launch strategy, and served as director of product operation, quality, and program management for the Dell Precision workstation business. Mr. Hand has also held a variety of international and worldwide product marketing responsibilities for Dell desktop and portable product lines in the U.S. and UK. |
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Kirk Schell Vice President of Product Marketing PC Product Group Dell Global |
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Kirk Schell is vice president of Dell’s Product Marketing, PC Product Group. In this role he is responsible for overseeing notebooks and desktops across the Commerical brand: strategy, planning, launch and sustaining programs, brand and messaging. Kirk has held multiple leadership roles in his 14 year career at Dell. Previously, he led the Marketing organization for Dell’s Business Client Product Group and was responsible for product strategy, product planning and management, messaging and overall business performance of the Latitude, OptiPlex and Dell Precision brands. Before that role, he served in Shanghai, China as director of the Vostro Product Group for Dell’s Small and Medium Business (SMB) division. In that capacity he was responsible for the Vostro desktop and notebook product line and Emerging Market products in Dell’s portfolio of SMB products worldwide. YOUR EXPERTS & PRESENTERS
Chris Convertito has over 18 years of experience in the PC industry. For the last three years, he has been with Dell as a Planning Manager responsible for defining future generations of Dell Precision Mobile Workstations. Prior to Dell, Chris had roles in product development and category management at Hewlett Packard and Compaq. Outside of work Chris likes to play golf or listen to live music at one of the many music venues for which Austin is famous. ________________________________________________________________________ |
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Nicolas Cuendet Solutions Marketing Manager, Dell Cloud Client Computing Dell EMEA |
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Nicolas Cuendet is a solution marketing manager in the Dell cloud client-computing organization, responsible for launching and messaging Dell Wyse Datacenter desktop virtualization solutions globally. He has been at Dell since 2006 in various marketing roles and is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Before Dell, Nicolas worked in the semiconductor industry in US, Japan and Switzerland. Nicolas holds MBA, physics and advanced engineering degrees from Stanford, EPFL and the university of Geneva. He speaks English, French, German and Spanish. |
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Tim Gee Marketing Director Latitude Product Marketing Dell Global |
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Tim Gee is the lead product planner in Dell’s Latitude product marketing organization responsible for planning the Dell 2015 Latitude notebook portfolio and docking solutions. Tim has been with Dell for over 15 years and has spent over 10 years developing notebook offerings including Latitude, Vostro, Inspiron and XPS. |
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Diederik Jas Marketing Director, Latitude Product Marketing Dell Global |
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Diederik Jas is the Product Line Managements Director for Displays & Client Peripherals in EMEA and has been with Dell for 12 years. Throughout his tenure he held a variety of Sales and Marketing roles with both local as well as cross regional focus. Prior to Dell he worked at Lucent technologies, KPN Telecom, AT&T and Unisource across functions in Operations, Business Management, strategy and analytics. |
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Goran Korajlija Director, Client Solutions Dell EMEA |
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Goran Korajlija, is Head of Client Sales Solutions CoC in EMEA. 20y Sales and Business Unit management experience in 2 different industries (FMCG/IT). Leading all EMEA Client Solutions Product, Pricing and Demand activities for all EMEA markets. Two times awarded globally for customer facing programs. Graduated at the University of Economics in Zagreb and also holds a honors MBA degree with University of Liverpool in the field of Marketing. |
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Mitch Markow Senior Director of Core Technologies, Client CTO Office |
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Mitch Markow is the Senior Director of Technology in the Client CTO office. His organization is responsible for driving, recommending and tracking key technologies including CPU and Chipsets, Graphics, Wireless Comms, Memory, I/O, Displays, Touch, Pen, Audio, Voice, Storage, Batteries, Power Architecture, Gesture, Cameras, Microsoft OS and Sensors. Mitch has been with Dell for 14 years and has held management positions in CPU architecture, audio, displays, printers and core technologies. Prior to joining Dell, Mitch spent 8 years leading Compaq’s audio organization, 7 years at Bose as an acoustics research engineer/manager and has held several other consulting positions in the acoustics field. Mitch received his Master of Science degree from MIT and BS degree from UT Austin. |
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Richard J Taylor Senior Marketing Manager Dell Displays Dell EMEA |
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Richard J. Taylor has over 25 years’ experience in the IT industry in various Sales and Marketing roles. He previously worked for Xerox, Samsung and HP across their B2B businesses, prior to joining Dell five years ago to manage Dell monitors within our Software and Peripherals business. Richard now leads Dell’s Display business for EMEA, responsible for a team of product lifecycle managers focused primarily on Dell branded monitors, projectors and the associated accessories within Dell’s Display ecosystem. WITH OUR KIND PARTNER |
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Nicholas Day Dell Account Director Intel EMEA |
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Nicholas Day is responsible for managing the Intel relationship with Dell in EMEA. Nick leads a team of product and regional experts supporting Dell across the various markets in EMEA. |
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