Ann Livermore

Ann Martinelli Livermore ( born August 23, 1958 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States) is Executive Vice President at Hewlett -Packard (HP) and has led the HP Enterprise Business Unit of HP since 2004.

Training

Livermore has graduated from North Carolina high school as valedictorian and is the holder of a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received the prestigious Jim Motley Morehead Scholarship. In addition, it has since 1982, an MBA from Stanford University.

Career

Ann Livermore came in 1982 right after their training to HP. There she worked in various positions in sales, marketing, and research before it was elected in 1995 as vice president of the company. In 1997 she was elected to the Supervisory Board of United Parcel Service.

When she Head of Software and Services at HP in 1998, the company management decided themselves to undergo a 360 -degree feedback. Livermore said: "I learned here is that I am a very, very well-controlled executive, but that my staff it quite like when I'm driving now and then from the skin, so to show my human side - it confirmed to me that Run also means people's hearts as well as their minds to touch. since I no longer eighth so much on keeping my mouth shut. "

Livermore was very successful with it, HP of its decentralized structures and hardware to solve mentalities and was the mastermind behind the e- Services Strategy, HP. As the CEO of HP Lewis Platt in March 1999 announced his imminent resignation, to Livermore applied for the position. Insiders say Livermore was the only internal candidate, but in July 1999, the former CEO of Lucent Technologies, Carly Fiorina, the first female managing director of a listed company in the Dow Jones.

Since 2004, led Livermore Technology Solutions Group at HP (2009 renamed HP Enterprise Business ), which is responsible of more than 30 billion U.S. dollars revenue for media storage, servers, software and services. The products and services of the business unit to operate the HP customers in over 170 countries. Once, as an expensive bad investment considered, the area today is an essential part of future growth. Livermore was once touted as a possible candidate for taking over the CEO post, as Carly Fiorina was removed from office as CEO in February 2005. Instead, however, was Mark Hurd from NCR Corp.. selected, the new CEO of HP to become.

Awards

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

Personal

2005 Livermore had a kidney transplant because of unspecified complaints announced.