Matt Baker is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning for the Infrastructure Solutions Group at Dell Technologies. He leads the development and implementation of an integrated set of business and technology strategies for the Infrastructure Solutions Group; a division of Dell Technologies delivering nearly $40 billion in annual revenues via Server, Storage, Networking, Software, and Services sales globally. Matt leads a senior team of strategic planning professionals chartered with three major functions: core annual/long-range business planning, execution of a comprehensive research agenda that informs the strategic planning process, and market/competitive intelligence to inform product planning and route-to-market tactics. Matt facilitates the planning process and program execution by building consensus across a diverse group of senior functional leaders. Matt manages a sophisticated portfolio prioritization process to realign investments and enable the execution of critical new plans. He is the creative force behind many of Dell Technologies thought leadership messaging platforms, and regularly delivers those thought leadership messages to customers, press and analysts at a diverse set of internal and external events. Prior to joining Dell in 2005, Matt held a variety of roles at Intel Corporation over 10 years including many years as an “end user” in Intel’s IT organization specializing in Remote Access, Network Security, and Datacenter Networking solution design. Matt drove Intel’s Technical Marketing efforts during the early development of 10GbE and iSCSI products, and worked to establish the broader iSCSI industry ecosystem by leading Intel’s participation in key interoperability and standardization efforts. Matt holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature and Political Science from McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland
