David Kennedy

Chief Financial Officer Dell Technologies

Last Reviewed: October 3, 2026

Executive Summary

David Kennedy became Chief Financial Officer of Dell Technologies in September 2025, first on an interim basis and permanently from November 2025. He oversees the whole finance organization, from accounting, planning, tax and treasury to investor relations, together with corporate development, Global Business Operations and Dell Financial Services, the company’s financing arm. He has been at Dell since 1998, mostly in finance but with stints running sales operations and more than a decade working from Ireland and India. His path to the job is the notable part: rather than recruit an outside CFO, Dell promoted an insider who had already run finance for its PC business and operations for its global sales force.

Career Highlights

• Chief Financial Officer of Dell Technologies since September 2025; interim until his permanent appointment effective 24 November 2025.
• Senior Vice President, Global Business Operations, Finance, 2023 to 2025.
• Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Global Sales, 2020 to 2023.
• Senior Vice President and CFO of the Client Solutions Group, 2017 to 2020.

Professional Journey

Kennedy earned an honours degree in Business Studies at the University of Limerick in 1998, the year he joined Dell, and gained the ACMA management accountancy qualification in 2001, according to his Dell biography. His early career there included finance, sales, business unit and international leadership roles, with more than ten years based in Ireland and India.

From April 2017 to February 2020 he was senior vice president and chief financial officer of the Client Solutions Group, the business that sells Dell’s PCs and peripherals. He then moved to the sales side as senior vice president and chief operating officer of Global Sales until February 2023, and from then ran Global Business Operations within finance.

When Dell’s previous CFO resigned effective 9 September 2025, Kennedy took the role on an interim basis; the board made the appointment permanent effective 24 November 2025, according to the 2026 proxy. As CFO he is responsible for accounting, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury and investor relations, as well as corporate development, Global Business Operations and Dell Financial Services, and he works with the offices of the CEO and COO on long-term strategy.

His biography describes a commitment to mentoring and developing the next generation of talent inside Dell and in the wider industry.

The 2026 proxy records that he served as interim CFO from 9 September to 24 November 2025 before the board made the appointment permanent, and lists him among the named executive officers for fiscal 2026. He works alongside founder and chief executive Michael Dell and vice chairman and chief operating officer Jeff Clarke.

Education

University of Limerick

Bachelor’s degree (honours), Business Studies, 1998