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STEVE YOUNG TITLE : SVP AND MD
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STEVE YOUNG TITLE : SVP AND MD

COMPANY : DELL TECHNOLOGIES INDUSTRY : TECHNOLOGY LOCATION : UNITED KINGDOM
Steve Young is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Dell Technologies UK . He has spent over 20 years at Dell , starting as a senior sales executive at EMC in 2001 .
business unit covering the entire value chain for SAP ’ s Business AI offering , extending from product development and research through to customer implementation . “ SAP ’ s increased focus on business AI marks the start of a completely new generation of enterprise innovation ,” he said .
Meanwhile Dell ’ s CAIO , Jeff Boudreau , is charged with overseeing the company ’ s Centre for Innovation , with the team focusing on shaping Dell ’ s AI strategy and policies , creating meaningful AI partnerships and advocating for the
advancement of secure and ethical AI and Gen AI technologies for the future . “ We are laser-focused on designing and delivering AI-powered solutions that help our customers transform the way they work and help them solve real problems ,” he said at the time of his announcement
According to Steve Young , SVP and MD at Dell Technologies UK , the organisation seeks to take advantage of several gamechanging AI use cases . “ One is around our efficiency . We have a lot of people , around 130,000 . I talk to many of my sales teams and they spend an awful lot of time doing work where they just have to grind something out . It ’ s very internal-facing , and I would much prefer our team spend much more time with our customers . We think that would be better for our customers and we think that would be better for our business . So if we can use machine learning and AI to take away a lot of that grunt work , then we think it will make our teams much more productive .
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