Jennifer Saavedra

Chief Human Resources Officer Dell Technologies

Last Reviewed: October 3, 2026

Executive Summary

Jennifer Saavedra is Chief Human Resources Officer of Dell Technologies, responsible for its global human resources and facilities function across a workforce of roughly 100,000. Trained as an industrial and organizational psychologist, with a doctorate from Tulane University, she joined Dell in 2005 after working as an HR consultant to private and public companies. At Dell she has worked across talent development, culture, business partnering, strategy and learning, and led HR for the sales organization before becoming CHRO. Her background is the distinctive thread: an organizational-behavior researcher by training who has spent two decades inside one company applying it.

Career Highlights

• Chief Human Resources Officer of Dell Technologies since 2021, leading Global Human Resources and Facilities.
• Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Sales, from 2019 to 2021.
• Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Talent and Culture, from 2017 to 2019.
• Holds a doctorate in industrial and organizational behavior from Tulane University.

Professional Journey

Saavedra earned a doctoral degree in industrial and organizational behavior at Tulane University, according to her Dell biography, and worked as a human resources consultant to private and public companies before joining Dell in 2005.

Over the following years she held HR leadership roles in several disciplines: talent development and culture, business partnering, strategy, and learning and development. From November 2017 to December 2019 she was senior vice president of human resources for talent and culture, and from December 2019 to March 2021 she led HR for Dell’s sales organization.

As Chief Human Resources Officer she now leads Dell’s Global Human Resources and Facilities function. The company’s biography describes her interest in the psychology of human behavior and in combining it with analytical insight to help people, teams and organizations perform, and notes that she has served on the executive boards of many of Dell’s Employee Resource Groups.

She is one of eight executive officers listed in Dell’s fiscal 2026 annual report, alongside founder and CEO Michael Dell and COO Jeff Clarke. Outside work, her biography says, she enjoys being active outdoors and listening to live music.

Her move into the top human resources role followed senior vice president posts in two parts of the function: talent and culture from 2017, and human resources for the sales organization from 2019. Before Dell she advised private and public companies on human resources as a consultant; the 10-K does not name the clients. Dell’s leadership page lists her, as Chief Human Resource Officer, among its executive team.

Education

Tulane University

Doctorate, Industrial and Organizational Behavior