Dell Shuffles More Top Roles As Accounting Chief Steps Down Week After Layoffs

Brunilda Rios – who has been with Dell since 1999 – stepped down as chief accounting officer, but will remain at Dell as a senior vice president. The move comes a week after layoffs, and soon after Dell’s COO Jeff Clarke assumed control of the PC business.

Dell Technologies’ chief accounting officer resigned from that role a week after the company laid off sales workers nationwide, including a crack team that worked to generate new business for the Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker.

Brunilda Rios, who has worked for Dell since 1999 and has held the chief accounting officer role since 2020, told the company she was quitting her job as chief accounting officer on Aug. 7 with the effective date Aug. 8, according to a regulatory filing Dell posted on Tuesday.

Rios (pictured above) is not leaving the company entirely, however. Dell said she remains as a senior vice president.

CRN has reached out to Dell about the reason Rios quit and what her new role will be. The company has not responded as of publication.

Richard Sharp, 41, has been tapped to take the chief accounting and reporting officer job, Dell wrote in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. In addition to adding the title and responsibilities of Dell’s principal accounting officer, the new role elevates Sharp from vice president, to senior vice president, according to the filing.

Sharp has worked for Dell since 2012, most recently as vice president, corporate accounting and reporting, a role he has been in since April 2021. Before that, Sharp had been Dell’s director, M&A and treasury accounting since March 2017.

In his new role, Sharp will draw an annual base salary of $368,100 and a target annual bonus in an amount equal to 55 percent of such base salary.

Last week, Dell carried out layoffs nationwide targeting several sales roles, including those in the “acquisitions team,” the group of sales executives and support staff that target new logos. The move surprised some of Dell’s channel partners who said that group tends to be highly driven and capable professionals with solid track records. Multiple channel partners told CRN they plan to seek out those who have been let go for roles on their staff.

One of the laid off employees who spoke with CRN said the move appeared to be made to better align all of its sales teams around selling the company’s portfolio of AI products.

Dell declined to discuss the layoffs, but told CRN in a statement: “I’m sure you know that while we aren’t going to get into specifics, we are always assessing our business to remain competitive and ensure we are set up to deliver the best innovation, value and service to our customers and partners.”

In its annual filing posted in February, Dell said it had 108,000 employees, which is 24,000 fewer than at the same point in 2020, a five-year workforce reduction of 19.4 percent, according to public documents.

In addition to the layoffs, Dell has also shuffled other senior leaders into new positions as the company seeks to seize on a massive PC refresh and carry-forward momentum in its sale of AI servers and storage arrays.

Jeff Clarke, Dell’s vice chairman and long-serving chief operating officer, is now leading the company’s PC division called the Client Solutions Group, while the former CSG president, Sam Burd, has moved into the role of chief strategy officer.