Ann Livermore

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Ann Livermore

Ann Martinelli Livermore (born August 23, 1958 in Greensboro , North Carolina , USA ) was Executive Vice President at Hewlett-Packard (HP) and has headed HP's HP Enterprise Business Unit since 2004 .

education

Livermore has graduated from the North Carolina High School made the best of the year and is the holder of a Bachelor -Grads in economics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where it the prestigious Jim Motley Morehead - scholarship awarded. She has also had an MBA from Stanford University since 1982 .

Career

Ann Livermore joined HP in 1982 immediately after completing her training. There she worked in various positions in sales, marketing and research before she was elected Vice President of the company in 1995. In 1997 she was elected to the board of United Parcel Service .

When she was head of the Software and Services department at HP in 1998 , the company's management decided to subject itself to 360 ° feedback . Livermore said: "I learned that I am a very, very well-controlled manager, but that my employees really like it when I run out of my skin every now and then, that is, show my human side - it confirmed to me that leadership also means touching people's hearts as well as their minds. Since then I have not paid so much attention to keeping my mouth shut. "

Livermore was very successful in separating HP from its decentralized structures and hardware mentalities and was the leading brain behind HP's e-services strategy. When HP's CEO Lewis Platt announced his upcoming resignation in March 1999, Livermore applied for the position. Insiders say Livermore was the only internal candidate, but in July 1999 former CEO of Lucent Technologies , Carly Fiorina , became the first female CEO of a Dow Jones company.

Since 2004, Livermore has headed HP's Technology Solutions Group (renamed HP Enterprise Business in 2009 ), which is responsible for storage media, servers, software and services with sales of more than US $ 30 billion. The products and services of this business unit serve HP customers in over 170 countries. Once viewed as an expensive bad investment, it is now an essential part of future growth. Livermore was re-traded as a potential CEO when Carly Fiorina was removed from her position as CEO in February 2005. Instead, however, Mark Hurd was hired by the NCR Corp. Selected to be the new CEO of HP.

Awards

Livermore was named in Fortune and Forbes magazines in the annual ranking of American women in leadership positions.

Personal

In 2005 Livermore had a kidney transplant because of unspecified ailments.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Women In Technology , informationweek.com. October 9, 2000. Retrieved January 24, 2008. 
  2. ↑ Is Ann Livermore the Hottest Property in the Valley? , forbes.com. August 30, 1999. Retrieved January 24, 2008. 
  3. ^ Q&A: HP's Ann Livermore on life after Carly , computerworld.com. April 14, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2008. 
  4. ↑ 50 Most Powerful Women in 2007 , money.cnn.com. Retrieved January 24, 2008. 
  5. ^ The World's 100 Most Powerful Women , forbes.com. August 30, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2008. 
  6. ↑ The Top Women In Line to Lead , careerjournal.com. November 1, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2008. 

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personal data
SURNAME Livermore, Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Livermore, Ann Martinelli (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Greensboro , North Carolina , USA