Dell replaces two top executives in global reorganisation

02 January 2009

As a fallout of its global reorganisation initiative, Dell is replacing two high-level executives, who will leave the company, media reports said.

Dell's president for its global operations Mike Cannon retires at the end of the month, while its chief marketing officer Mike Jarvis also leaves the company during the current fiscal quarter and also coincidentally retires on 31 January.

In a statement released just before New Year's eve, Dell said that Cannon would continue to serve Dell as a consultant, while Jarvis would provide "ongoing counsel to Dell through the consulting business that brought him to the company."

Cannon is reported to be succeeded by Jeff Clarke, who will still be head of Dell's business-client product group and assume a new role of vice chairman of global operations. Jarvis would be replaced as chief marketing officer Erin Nelson, who is presently Dell's head of marketing in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

The reorganisation effort also redraws the internal map of Dell, splitting its business sales group into thirds, with each corresponding to a particular customer segment.

The three segments would now be large enterprise, public sector, and small and medium businesses. Dell's consumer-sales group is already organised in a way suited to the global business, and is run by Ron Garriques.

The newly formed large-enterprise division would be headed by Steve Schuckenbrock, who is presently the president of global services and is also Dell's chief information officer.