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Bill Veghte

Before joining Hewlett-Packard in 2010, Veghte spent 20 years at Microsoft, where he most recently served as senior vice president in the Windows division. Veghte held a variety of other executive and management roles at Microsoft and is credited with growing the company's two core businesses: Windows and Office. He joined HP as head of the Software and Solutions Group and was later promoted to chief strategy officer and then COO. This month Veghte was tapped to replace Dave Donatelli as executive vice president and general manager of HP's Enterprise Group.