Rory P. Read joined Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Allen’s board in 2023. He is a senior vice president at Ericsson, a global information and communication technology company, and heads Ericsson’s Global Communications Platform business area as president and CEO of Vonage, a global provider of cloud communications solutions, which was acquired by Ericsson in 2022. He is also a member of the Ericsson executive team.
Rory has more than three decades of experience leading global technology organizations, including previous roles as chief operating executive of Dell Technologies, CEO and president of Dell Virtustream, and executive vice president of Dell Boomi. As chief integration officer at Dell, Rory played a lead role in the historic $67 billion merger of Dell and EMC Corporation. Before that, he served as CEO, president, and board member of Advanced Micro Devices, and chief operating officer and president of Lenovo. Earlier, Rory spent 23 years at IBM, serving in various leadership roles.Â
He graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in information sciences from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.Â
Rory is a member of the Audit Committee.