Kevin Barney Rollins (born November 15, 1952) is an American businessman and philanthropist. The former President and CEO of Dell Inc., in 2006 Rollins was named by London's CBR as the 9th Most Influential person in the Enterprise IT sector.
Rollins was born and raised in Utah and met his wife Debra while attending Brigham Young University (BYU). While at BYU, Rollins earned a bachelors in Humanities and Civil Engineering in 1983 and an MBA a year later. Before joining Dell in April 1996, Rollins was vice president and partner of Bain & Company where he specialized in strategies and management for high technology and consumer product clients. He helped develop strategies that propelled Dell into a commanding position in the direct selling of computer systems in the United States.
Rollins and his wife have four children and seven grandchildren.
Rollins worked at Dell for over a decade in various positions, including Senior VP of Corporate Strategy (1996), president of Dell Americas (1996–2001) overseeing operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Latin America, COO (2001–2004), president (2001–2007), and CEO (2004–2007). During the last four quarters of his leadership, the company employed approximately 50,000 workers worldwide and reported revenues of $45.4 billion.
"Dell continues to make investments in facilities, employees and communities here in the United States and abroad so we can exceed our customers' expectations at every turn,"
"Dell's growth in Oklahoma City is testament to the superior service that our customers receive from the dedicated employees who have become part of our team here in Oklahoma City."
"As we look at the dynamics of the industry...we see normal seasonal trends (and) good growth, healthy growth. And if what people are saying about our competition and the industry being down, we're probably taking more share this quarter than we anticipated."
"If that agreement and relationship expand, so be it. It could be a good thing, (but) we don't have anything to announce."
"This move places us closer to our customers in a market that presents excellent long-term growth opportunities for Dell."
"If you look at Internet companies today that have no earnings but have a lot of stock value and the high cost to buy them, we can't see in our business model where it makes a whole lot of sense,"
"We believe that the fundamentals of our business are still very healthy, and we did beat analysts estimates in terms of our earnings, and saw an opportunity to make a little more money with some slowness in Europe and the government sector. In the second half, we're still confident that the target and goal we have talked to the Street about, the 30 percent growth, is achievable, and believe that seasonally the second half is better, and will be this year as well,"
"The market is in a very strange mood, and so with earnings and revenue growth estimates, it's pretty hard to predict how the market's going to react to a company's earnings and revenue growth rate right now,"
"that business has been in and is in a transition phase this year, and a real positive sign was that this quarter. Profits improved in Europe by 24 percent over the first quarter. That's the first step in the transition. We've got a management team that is coming together and we believe that by the fourth quarter, we'll be in very good shape to accelerate growth; and so right now we're very hopeful and positive and the transformation is on track."
"The weakest part of our overall business is in U.S. corporate sales in general, probably desktops,"
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