Dell CFO Yvonne McGill To Resign Effective Sept. 9, 2025; David Kennedy Appointed Interim CFO As Company Begins Search For Successor

Benzinga · 09/08/2025 20:15

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.


 

(b) and (e) On September 5, 2025, Dell Technologies Inc. (the "Company") and Yvonne McGill, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, agreed that Ms. McGill will resign from her position as the Company's Chief Financial Officer effective on September 9, 2025. Ms. McGill will serve in an advisory role to assist with an orderly transition and will remain a full-time employee of the Company through October 31, 2025, which is the last day of the third quarter of fiscal year 2026. Ms. McGill's decision to resign her position is not the result of any disagreements with the Company on any matter relating to its financial statements, internal control over financial reporting, operations, policies or practices.


 

The Company has entered into a separation agreement with Ms. McGill that provides for a general release and waiver of claims against the Company and other matters relating to the termination of her employment (the "Separation Agreement"). Subject to specified conditions, the Separation Agreement provides that Ms. McGill will receive a cash payment reflecting a pro rata bonus for fiscal 2026 in an amount equal to approximately $562,500, in addition to the entitlements provided pursuant to Ms. McGill's Protection of Sensitive Information, Noncompetition and Nonsolicitation Agreement.


 

(c) In connection with Ms. McGill's departure from the position of Chief Financial Officer, David Kennedy, Senior Vice President, Global Business Operations, Finance, has been appointed by the Company's Board of Directors to act as the Company's interim Chief Financial Officer, in which position he will serve as the Company's principal financial officer, effective on September 9, 2025.


 

Mr. Kennedy, age 48, has served in various positions with the Company since September 1998. Mr. Kennedy has served as Senior Vice President, Global Business Operations, Finance, since February 2023 and, prior to that service, as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Global Sales, since February 2020, and as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company's Client Solutions Group since April 2017.


 

Mr. Kennedy will continue to be eligible to participate in severance, retirement, welfare and benefit plans and programs generally available to other employees of the Company, including the Dell Technologies Inc. 2023 Stock Incentive Plan, which is described in the Company's proxy statement for its 2025 annual meeting of stockholders, filed on Schedule 14A with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 16, 2025.


 

Information referred to in Item 5.02(c)(3) of Form 8-K has not been determined as of the date of this report.


 

The Company has initiated a search to identify a permanent Chief Financial Officer.