Jeff Silva, Senior Consultant, Enterprise Servers, Dell, Retired

After 10 years as senior consultant, enterprise servers, at Dell Inc., Jeff Silva retired last April.

In 2007, he was senior director, product marketing at Pivot3, and formerly client solution director for EMC. Previously, he worked more than five years at MaXXan Systems as co-founder and VP marketing, after 3 years and 9 months being group manager, storage interconnect, for Compaq.

In 1980, he joined IBM being for around 16 years senior business development manager, advisory marketing rep, finance and administration manager.