Dell appoints new co-COO as vendor eyes growth

Chuck Whitten will take up his new role in August alongside current COO Jeff Clarke

Dell Technologies has appointed Chuck Whitten as its new co-chief operating officer to "help lead Dell's next phase of growth".

Whitten will take up the new role from 16 August alongside fellow COO Jeff Clarke after spending the last 22 years at Bain & Company.

"Coming off a record FY21 and first-quarter of FY22, we are growing and our opportunity is growing even faster," Clarke said.

"Chuck joins the company at a pivotal time to give us greater leadership capacity to cover more ground, assess more opportunities and speed decision making to best serve customers.

"As our top advisor, Chuck has been an integral part of the team for a long time working across strategy, transformation and operations. I couldn't be happier to have him as co-COO to capture big growth opportunities across our portfolio as the world becomes more digital and data driven."

Dell recently announced the launch of APEX, its as-a-service platform which incorporates a number of services under one console.

And the vendor posted a 12 per cent increase in revenue for its Q1 at $24.5bn, its highest ever for a Q1 which it put down to the "do anything from anywhere economy".

Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, said: "With technology at the centre of the world's recovery and what's next, we have tremendous growth opportunity across our core infrastructure and PC businesses and in high-priority areas including hybrid and private cloud, edge, telecom and APEX.

"Together Jeff, Chuck and I will shape the future of the company and accelerate the outcomes we can drive for customers.

"Chuck's leadership, energy, knowledge and humanity make him the obvious choice to join our team and strengthen our industry leadership."