Jay Parker has returned to his tech roots after resigning from Lenovo. Parker is back at Dell as vice president and general manager for North America Enterprise Solutions.
WRAL TechWire first reported last week that parker had resigned from Lenovo’s Enterprise Business Group in RTP.
CRN reported the hiring as “yet another sign of Dell’s increasing channel momentum.”
“Dell is upping its channel IQ yet again,” said Rory Sanchez, president and CEO of SLPowers, a Dell partner in Florida, “Jay is a respected executive with a good reputation. I’m happy he is coming on board at Dell, which is now our No. 1 vendor and customer. As a Dell GEOPartner, they engage us to deliver Dell-branded services day in and day out.”
“This is just another part of Dell’s master plan,” he added. “Dell convinced everybody they didn’t need the channel, and now they have stolen the channel [from competitors]. That didn’t happen by accident.”
The triangle Business Journal first reported Dell’s hiring of Parker.
“Jay has a wealth of industry expertise and adds to the impressive bench of experienced executives joining Dell over the past 12 months,” David Frink, director of corporate affairs at Dell, told TBJ’s Lauren Ohnesorge.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Parker’s top two previous positions at Dell were:
- Executive Director of Worldwide Marketing, Servers; November 2005 – July 2007 (1 year 9 months) Austin, Texas Area
- Executive Director of Worldwide Marketing, Notebook Computers; March 2003 – October 2005 (2 years 8 months)
Parker left Dell to join Lenovo in 2007. Lenovo hired several Dell executives after acquiring IBM’s PC division 10 years ago.
Among those was David Schmoock, who left Lenovo in 2012 to return to Dell.
Parker was deeply involved in Lenovo’s server efforts following the acquisition of IBM’s x86 business last year. Lenovo ranks. No. 4 in server sales. Dale is No. 2 behind HP.
