Meet the Dell EMC Partner Program Leaders: Joyce Mullen

Meet the Program Leaders

This is the third post in our Meet the Leaders series, which provides insight into what drives Dell EMC channel executives. Missed the first two posts? Get to know them now: John Byrne (Dell EMC President of Global Channels);  Michael Collins (Dell EMC Senior Vice President, Channel, EMEA); Ng Tian Beng (Dell EMC Senior Vice President, APJ Channels).

Meet Joyce Mullen – Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global OEM and IoT Solutions

What is your current role/area of responsibility?

As the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global OEM & IoT Solutions, I lead an amazing team that delivers best-in-class technology, a world-class supply chain, global support capabilities and vertical expertise to OEM and IoT partners and customers, allowing them to focus on their intellectual property and grow their business. The best part of my job is that I get to help customers solve the world’s most vexing problems – from improving cancer treatments to launching satellites – faster and more efficiently.

We offer a faster way to turn our customers’ ideas into market-ready solutions and take them to the world. With the right set of OEM Partners by our side, we enable our customers to excel in three key areas:

  1. Innovate Faster: Shorten time to market
  2. Build Bolder: Create better customer experiences
  3. Scale Smarter: Reduce costs and complexity

It’s a really exciting time to be in this role as customers and partners are seeing the opportunity and taking advantage of our offerings now more than ever. In fact, last year we more than tripled the number of OEM partners that we work with.

How long have you worked with the channel partner community?

I’ve had the privilege of leading the OEM channel partner program since its conception five years ago. It’s been exciting to see the program grow, especially recently as OEM became a specialized track within the industry’s most enviable, most innovative and most desirable Partner Program.

What most excites you about Dell EMC opportunity?

The combination of Dell and EMC is so exciting. We’ve truly never seen a greater opportunity than we see right now. The market and economy look good, our product portfolio has never looked better, and we have the best team and partners in place to help our customers design and build the right solutions for their environments.

I guess I have to say that the most exciting factor is that we have such a diverse set of products, solutions and services. With this unique set of offerings, we can enable our customers no matter where they’re at on their Digital Transformation journey. Combining the Dell and EMC portfolios meant that we could leverage that many more solutions to expertly bring our partners’ and customers’ intellectual property to market. For our engineers, I would compare this to being a kid in a candy store.

Oh, and I can’t help but mention that we’re #1 in so many areas. That’s pretty exciting, too.

What most excites you about the Dell EMC Partner Program?

I’m most excited for the way that we’ve brought all of our partner tracks into one simple, predictable, profitable program. As part of our one cohesive program, OEM partners will receive the same great benefits that other partner types receive – from a single portal sign-on to automated rebates. This also means bigger opportunity and more lucrative earnings for OEM partners.

We keep hearing that our partners are excited about these expanded opportunities, and we’re proud to be able to offer them. It’s going to be a really great year.

What do you see as the biggest opportunity for Dell EMC partners in 2017?

GROWTH!!! The market is huge and growing faster than GDP. Our customers are turning to technology as they transform their businesses and solutions…. And no one has better technology than we do.

What could be more fun than that?

Do you have a favorite country, place or city to visit; and why?

I’m not sure if I could name just one! Now that our four children are grown, they’ve dispersed across the country; so to see them means travelling. We also love visiting family in New England and Southern California, and skiing in Utah.

We’ve been incredibly fortunate to have had some really great, adventurous and educational family trips over the years. One of our favorite trips was to Vietnam and Cambodia when the kids were younger; it was really an eye-opening experience for them. We’ve been on a couple of safaris which were unbelievable, too. To see animals in their habitat and learn about how they communicate and warn each other of impending danger was absolutely fascinating.

I always love Rome and Paris, too. Every trip we take, we realize there are so many more places to see.

What do you do for fun outside of Dell EMC?

My husband and I love to spend time with our four kids – we’re incredibly proud of the people they’ve grown up to be. We also have two dogs who are a big part of our lives, and who love to hike with us in Austin.

OEM IoT Leader Joyce Mullen
Joyce Mullen enjoys hiking in Austin with her husband, four children and furbabies.

We love to travel, ski, scuba dive. We love learning about wine.

Giving back to the community has always been important to us as well. I am the vice chair of the Capital Area Food Bank and sit on the Brown School of Engineering Corporate Affiliates Board.

Follow Joyce Mullen on Twitter: @JoyceatDell.

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