Rodney J. Rogers

He is also the co-founder and director of The Blue Lagoon Foundation, a non-profit charitable giving organization, and he established the Rodney & Judith Rogers Entrepreneurial Excellence Endowment for the Warrington School of Business at the University of Florida. Rogers also serves as an Advisor to the University of Florida’s Innovative Ventures Fund.

After the EMC acquisition, Virtustream became one of EMC’s 4 operating companies with Rogers as CEO reporting directly to the CEO of EMC. In 2016, Dell Technologies acquired EMC for $60+ billion in the largest acquisition in the history of the technology industry. Rogers then led Virtustream through its second successful post-merger integration in as many years, and ultimately on to become one of Dell Technologies’ seven ingredient brands.

From 2016 until the time he retired in 2018, within Dell Technologies, Rogers served as the President of the Virtustream business, a member of both the Dell EMC Infrastructure Solutions Group and Dell Services & Digital executive leadership teams, and as member of the Dell Technologies extended leadership team.

The acquisition of Virtustream was one of the largest private technology start-up acquisitions in 2015.

Rogers has been the recipient of numerous technology industry awards including being an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist twice, an American Business Awards CEO winner and was recognized along with co-founder Kevin Reid as Intel Capital’s Entrepreneur/Exit of the Year in 2015.

Rodney J. Rogers is a serial entrepreneur and expert technologist with more than 30 years in the technology services industry. He is known for leadership contributions at two “unicorns” — startups that achieve billion-dollar valuations.

Florida Crystals Corporation has remained a customer of Rogers for 25+ years— from Accenture, to Adjoined, through Kanbay, Capgemini, Virtustream, EMC and Dell Technologies.

Rogers co-founded Virtustream in 2009 and was Chairman and CEO prior to its acquisition by EMC Corporation (now Dell Technologies) in 2015 for $1.2 billion.

Rogers was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Adjoined from its inception in 2000 through its acquisition by Kanbay in 2006. Adjoined was one of the fastest growing US-based IT services companies. After the acquisition in 2006, Rogers went onto become COO and SEC Section-16 Officer of Kanbay, a 7,000 person global IT Services firm, reporting directly to the CEO. In 2007, Kanbay was acquired by Capgemini SE for $1.2 billion. After the acquisition, Rogers became Managing Director of Capgemini’s East US Business and served on Capgemini’s US Country Managing Board until he retired from Capgemini in 2008.

In 1994, he left to work directly for one of his clients, Florida Crystals Corporation. At 28 years old, Rogers was hired to run Florida Crystals Corporation’s Consumer Products Division as its General Manager, which he continued to do until he co-founded Adjoined in 2000.

Rogers started his career in 1988 at Andersen Consulting, known today as Accenture. Rogers developed and implemented software technologies in the manufacturing and distribution industries. He was an early promote to manager in 1992 and was elected to a variety of firmwide leadership committees.