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HP Taps International Exec As New PSG And Partner Chief
5:06 PM EDT Tue. Apr. 15, 2008
Those positions at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company have been vacant since December when Jim McDonnell, senior vice president and general manager of HP's Solution Partners Organization worldwide accepted a position as vice president of global sales for HP's Enterprise Storage and Servers.
In his role Personal Systems Group (PSG) role, Lores reports directly to Todd Bradley, PSG executive vice president, and is responsible for the strategy and growth of its direct and indirect channel commercial volume sales.
Lores will also develop channel relationships in HP's Solutions Partner Organization (SPO), working with about 145,000 commercial channel partners worldwide, HP said. In that capacity, he will also report indirectly to Ann Livermore, executive vice president of HP's Technology Solutions Group (TSG) and Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of HP's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG).
Prior to the promotion, Lores was general manager and vice president of IPG's Inkjet Commercial Division. Lores currently lives in Barcelona, Spain, and will move to California in the near future, HP said.
Rich Baldwin, president and CEO of Nth Generation Computing, a San Diego-based HP solution provider, said he has never had the opportunity to meet or learn about Lores, but the move comes during a time when HP is making many changes to its channel.
"I guess it's a good thing," Baldwin said.
But it is not a surprising thing, Baldwin said. "In HP, we're seeing more international executives taking over," he said. "The U.S. accounts for less than half of HP's worldwide market, so it makes sense to bring in someone from EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). When you look at the hotspots for rapid growth, it's certainly not the U.S. today."
