Dell revamps manufacturing with Solectron CEO
Dell continues to make wholesale changes to its executive roster.
On Wednesday, the company announced that it has hired Michael Cannon, the chief executive officer of manufacturing powerhouse Solectron, to lead Dell's worldwide manufacturing operations. Cannon will oversee all of Dell's global manufacturing sites, which were previously run by local leaders, a company representative said.
Cannon is the latest hire in an executive shakeup that has seen CEO Kevin Rollins and CFO Jim Schneider--among others--leave Dell after a tumultous year. Last week, online marketing chief John Hamlin became the latest longtime Dell executive to seek other pastures.
Even before his return to the CEO spot, Michael Dell has been busy recruiting new executives--such as Steven Schuckenbrock from EDS, Donald Carty from American Airlines, and Sona Chawla of Wells Fargo--from outside the technology industry in hopes of injecting new life into the organization. As head of Solectron, Cannon oversaw a huge technology manufacturing organization, but Solectron also designed and built products for other industries such as automotive and medical.
Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple. E-mail Tom. 
