EMC’s upcoming integration with Dell will be the largest technology merger in history. During a recent interview on theCUBE at EMC World 2016, Howard Elias, who will serve as President, Services and IT for the new company, shares his insights into why the Dell-EMC merger is different from other mergers in the technology industry, the guiding principles driving the integration work, and how the two companies will jointly deliver value to customers.
Howard Elias is president of Services and Digital at Dell Technologies, overseeing global support, deployment, consulting, education and managed services, the IT organization and Virtustream. He also co-leads Dell Technologies Select, an elite sales team focused on serving some of Dell Technologies’ largest customers.
Howard is responsible for setting and driving strategy to enable and accelerate the mission-critical business transformations of customers and Dell’s own global operations.
Previously, he held various leadership positions at EMC, including president and chief operating officer of Global Enterprise Services.
In 2016, he was tapped to be EMC’s lead for the Dell and EMC integration, overseeing the value creation and combination of the largest technology merger in history.
Howard joined EMC in 2003 from Hewlett-Packard where he was senior vice president of Business Management and Operations for the Enterprise Systems Group. Prior to Hewlett-Packard, he held executive positions at Compaq, Digital, AST Research and Tandy Corporation.
Howard was a co-founder and served on the board of managers for the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Company. He currently serves as chairman of TEGNA Inc., a media and digital business company, and is a member of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable. He attended Wayne State University and Lawrence Technological University.
