---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001571996-21-000047"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DELL"
cik: "0001571996"
company_name: "Dell Technologies Inc."
filed_at: "2021-09-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T00:23:22.161292+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dell Technologies expands board to 8, appoints David Grain as director

## Summary
- Board increased from 7 to 8 directors; David Grain fills new seat effective Sept. 30, 2021.
- Grain is founder/CEO of Grain Management; previously President of Global Signal and SVP at AT&T Broadband.
- Grain qualifies as independent director under NYSE listing standards; no committee assignments yet.
- Initial compensation: $100K cash retainer + $225K equity retainer, both elected as deferred stock units vesting June 22, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001571996-21-000047
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DELL
- cik: 0001571996
- company_name: Dell Technologies Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-09-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571996/000157199621000047/0001571996-21-000047-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571996/000157199621000047/dell-20210930.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001571996-21-000047
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001571996-21-000047.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001571996-21-000047.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David Grain was appointed as Director at Dell Technologies Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 30, 2021, upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Dell Technologies Inc. (the “Company”), the Board approved an increase in the size of the Board from seven directors to eight directors and appointed David Grain to fill the newly created directorship, effective on the same date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571996/000157199621000047/0001571996-21-000047-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.