Dell Names Kevin Peesker President of Dell Canada

Dell Names Kevin Peesker President of Dell Canada










 
Kevin Peesker Dell announced today that Kevin Peesker has assumed the role of President, Dell Canada Inc., effective February 4, 2013. He will be responsible for continuing to drive Dell’s commercial business in Canada with Enterprise, Services, End-User Computing and Software customers.

Mr. Peesker was most recently General Manager for Dell’s Consumer and Small Business customer segments in Europe where his leadership spanned a diverse geography including teams in the UK, France, Germany, India, Casablanca, Bratislava, Copenhagen, Ireland, Netherlands and the Nordics. A member of Dell’s Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA) senior leadership team, Kevin’s key responsibilities included sales, on-line sites, customer experience, strategy and multi-country team and P & L management. In 2011, Kevin led the UK and Ireland’s Consumer, Small and Medium Business market, which also included the UK field teams serving our fast growing medium business customers.

“Kevin has had a significant impact on our business in Canada and EMEA,” said PaulHenri Ferrand, President, North America Commercial, to whom Mr. Peesker will report. “I know he will continue to play a critical role building on our successes in Canada as we drive our transformation as an end-to-end solutions company. Kevin’s appointment to this newly-created position brings with it a stronger country focus to our sales organization.” Kevin will announce his country leadership team and implement an integrated end-to-end segment structure, spanning consumer, small & medium enterprises, mid-market, and large institutions across commercial and public sectors in the early part of Dell’s new fiscal year. 

Before his assignment in EMEA, Mr. Peesker served as Dell Canada’s Vice President and General Manager, SMB, responsible for all aspects of Dell’s direct and channel sales and marketing activities. As a member of Dell Canada and the Americas International leadership team, Kevin’s executive leadership also included ownership of Dell’s corporate commercial customers as well as Dell’s software and peripherals business unit.

Prior to joining Dell in January 2003, Kevin occupied several management and executive leadership roles in finance, operations, marketing, sales and general management. Born and raised in Canada, Kevin has travelled to over 65 countries and worked overseas for 16 years on 5 continents. Kevin began his international career as National Vice President for AIESEC Canada and has worked with Sun Life, IBM, Lexmark, Gateway, British based UTC and Dell Inc. In addition to an active family life, Kevin has held several Board positions and is actively involved in community coaching roles.

Mr. Peesker holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan and earned a Masters of Business Administration (Executive) with Distinction from the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

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