Founder of VCE Co. LLC, Howard D. Elias currently holds the position of Chairman at TEGNA, Inc. and President-Dell Services, Digital & IT at Dell Technologies, Inc. He is also on the board of VCE Co. LLC and Member of The Massachusetts Business Roundtable. In the past he occupied the position of President & Chief Operating Officer at Global Enterprise Services, Inc., Senior VP-Business Management & Operations at HP, Inc. Senior VP & GM-Business Critical Server Group at Compaq Computer Corp. and Vice President at Digital Equipment Corp. (both are subsidiaries of HP, Inc.), COO-Global Enterprise Services at EMC Corp., Vice President-Marketing of AST Research, Inc. and Vice President-Marketing for Tandy Corp.