HPE loses second key exec in as many weeks
(2020/05/13)
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HPE has lost its second key executive in just over a week, as the company announces a reshuffle to better deal with a "post COVID-19 world".
Mark Potter, the company's Chief Technology Officer and head of its R&D outfit, HP Labs, will leave the company in summer, according to [1]a blog post from the company's chief exec, Antonio Neri . Before taking his exec role, Potter served as the general manager to several HP businsses across a decade, including HP's server businesses and its blades business, which he grew to over $3bn in revenue.
His role will be filled by Kumar Sreekanti, who will also become the company's new head of software. Pete Ungaro, who heads up the company's High Performance Computing and Mission Critical Solutions division, will also take on responsibility for HP Labs.
Potter's departure marks the second key executive to leave the company within a number of weeks. Late last month, Phil Davis, who ran the company's $23bn hybrid IT division and its global sales team, [2]resigned from his post to take up a role as head of AWS's Asia Pacific and Japan business.
All country heads had ultimately reported to Davis, who in turn reported to Neri, so his role carried weight across the organisation.
In the blog post, Neri also claims he is restructuring the company to adapt to the "the new world that is emerging" after the COVID-19 lockdowns. Under the new arrangement, the heads of each of the company's seven key businesses will report directly to Neri. These include:
Tom Black, head of HPE's storage portfolio
Pradeep Kumar, who leads the company's Pointnext Technology Services business
Neil MacDonald, head of HPE's compute business
Keerti Melkote, head of HPE's Intelligent Edge business, which includes Aruba
Irv Rothman, head of HPE Financial Services
Pete Ungaro, aforementioned head of HPC and MSC , including Cray
Keith White, head of the company's new GreenLake Cloud Service business
HPE has seemingly been restructuring ever since Meg Whitman's [3]HPE Next initiative in 2017 , which preceded her exit by just a few months.
Her successor Antonio Neri has pushed to make available all the company's products as a service through a [4]subscription model by 2022 .
HPE then, has not directly replaced Davis. According to the blogpost, front-runner, Heiko Meyer, will continue in his role as chief sales officer and will also report directly to Neri, as opposed to reporting to Davis. ®
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[1] https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/blog-post/2020/05/designing-an-agile-organization-for-a-post-covid-19-world.html
[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/05/phil_davis_aws/
[3] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/13/hpe_changes/
[4] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/18/hpe_greenlake_by_2022/
[5] https://go.theregister.co.uk/tl/1936/-8554/forrester-build-a-digital-experience-portfolio?td=wptl1936
Mark Potter, the company's Chief Technology Officer and head of its R&D outfit, HP Labs, will leave the company in summer, according to [1]a blog post from the company's chief exec, Antonio Neri . Before taking his exec role, Potter served as the general manager to several HP businsses across a decade, including HP's server businesses and its blades business, which he grew to over $3bn in revenue.
His role will be filled by Kumar Sreekanti, who will also become the company's new head of software. Pete Ungaro, who heads up the company's High Performance Computing and Mission Critical Solutions division, will also take on responsibility for HP Labs.
Potter's departure marks the second key executive to leave the company within a number of weeks. Late last month, Phil Davis, who ran the company's $23bn hybrid IT division and its global sales team, [2]resigned from his post to take up a role as head of AWS's Asia Pacific and Japan business.
All country heads had ultimately reported to Davis, who in turn reported to Neri, so his role carried weight across the organisation.
In the blog post, Neri also claims he is restructuring the company to adapt to the "the new world that is emerging" after the COVID-19 lockdowns. Under the new arrangement, the heads of each of the company's seven key businesses will report directly to Neri. These include:
Tom Black, head of HPE's storage portfolio
Pradeep Kumar, who leads the company's Pointnext Technology Services business
Neil MacDonald, head of HPE's compute business
Keerti Melkote, head of HPE's Intelligent Edge business, which includes Aruba
Irv Rothman, head of HPE Financial Services
Pete Ungaro, aforementioned head of HPC and MSC , including Cray
Keith White, head of the company's new GreenLake Cloud Service business
HPE has seemingly been restructuring ever since Meg Whitman's [3]HPE Next initiative in 2017 , which preceded her exit by just a few months.
Her successor Antonio Neri has pushed to make available all the company's products as a service through a [4]subscription model by 2022 .
HPE then, has not directly replaced Davis. According to the blogpost, front-runner, Heiko Meyer, will continue in his role as chief sales officer and will also report directly to Neri, as opposed to reporting to Davis. ®
Sponsored: [5]Forrester Build a Digital Experience Portfolio
[1] https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/blog-post/2020/05/designing-an-agile-organization-for-a-post-covid-19-world.html
[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/05/phil_davis_aws/
[3] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/13/hpe_changes/
[4] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/18/hpe_greenlake_by_2022/
[5] https://go.theregister.co.uk/tl/1936/-8554/forrester-build-a-digital-experience-portfolio?td=wptl1936
Re: How Sad
not.known@this.address
This is more like lowering haystacks from the decks of the Lusitania...
There's a towel in one of these pockets...
you clearly saw a copy of the email
Anonymous Coward
... so you could have gone on to explain that he is actually retiring, but there we go - not as good a story then eh?
How Sad
Could you not have included one "Rearranging the deck chairs on the Itanic" reference for old times' sake?