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May 5, 2003

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MICHAEL DELL TO APPEAR AS GUEST SPEAKER
AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO MAY 20

The new School of Management at the University of California, San Diego, will present A Conversation with Michael Dell, founder and chief executive officer of Dell Computer Corp., as its first in a series of public lectures. The event is co-sponsored by UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering and the Beyster Institute.

The meeting, open to the public, will be held at 4 p.m. May 20 in the International Relations/Pacific Studies Graduate School’s Robinson Auditorium.

Participating in the dialogue with Dell will be Robert S. Sullivan, founding dean of the Management School; Freider Seible, dean of the School of Engineering, and Ray Smilor, president of the Beyster Institute, a non-profit education, training and consulting organization dedicated to advancing the use of entrepreneurial employee ownership. Questions from the audience will be welcomed.

As an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, Michael Dell started selling computer components from his dorm room. Today, the company he founded is a leading hardware vendor with more than 39,000 employees worldwide, and in less than two decades its sales have grown from $6 million to over $35.4 billion. With the addition of Dell to the Fortune 500 list in 1992, Michael Dell became the youngest CEO of a company ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500.

Under his direction, Dell has established itself as the world’s most preferred computer systems company and a premier provider of products and services required for customers to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures.

In 1999, Dell wrote the best-selling book, Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, his story of the Del Computer Corp. and the strategies he has refined that apply to all businesses. He is a member of the executive committee of the World Business Council, a vice chairman of the U.S. Business Council, and the chairman of the Computer Systems Policy Project, an affiliation of CEOs from top computer companies that advocates public policy positions on trade and technology affecting the computer industry. He also serves on the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Seating is limited. While the event is free, there is a charge for parking. For additional information call (858) 822-0575 or visit spatti@ucsd.edu.