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AMD Chooses New Chief Marketing Officer

The chief executive officer and the board of directors of Advanced Micro Devices have finally decided who would assume the position of chief marketing officer. The new senior vice president and CMO is Colette LaForce, 39, a former member of Dell. She will report directly to President and CEO Rory Read. Currently, ...

4 May 2012
08:34 GMT

Samsung Names Former Canon Member as Enterprise Division Leader

Samsung has hired a new executive vice president, a person that held a number of leadership positions at Canon over the past nineteen years. The post that Tod Pike will fill is that of senior vice president and leader of Samsung’s Enterprise Business Division. In this role, he will work from the company'...

11 April 2012
14:21 GMT

AMD's New Chief Human Resources Officer Is Darrell Ford

Advanced Micro Devices is gaining a new staff member, one that will assume a place among the high-ranking executives and carry out a very important role. Darrell Ford, age 47, has become the senior vice president and chief human resources officer of the Sunnyvale, California-based CPU, GPU and APU maker. That mean...

3 April 2012
14:51 GMT

WebOS Loses Another Exec, CTO Leaves His Position

Ever since HP gave up on the webOS division and said it wasn't going to do much with the software besides make it open source, employees of all ranks have been leaving. Most recently, the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of the webOS program left his post. Unlike his peers who left the corporation, though, he wi...

30 March 2012
08:31 GMT

Logitech Gets Bracken P. Darrell as President and, Eventually, CEO

Whirlpool EMEA leader Bracken P. Darrell has become the latest member of Logitech's leading team, having been named one of the company's presidents. His tenure will officially start on April 9 and will continue for the remainder of the year, until his role changes, more like expands, in 2013. “I�...

19 March 2012
11:22 GMT

AUO Executives Convicted for LCD Price Fixing, Appeal Incoming

Two executives from AU Optronics have been found guilty of fixing the prices of LCDs over a period of several years.The individuals, HB Chen and Hui Hsiung, are two of the five people that were investigated.The other three are LJ Chen, Hubert Lee and Steven Leung, though the third is not out of the woods yet.While C...

14 March 2012
11:52 GMT

Globalfoundries Appoints Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)

Globalfoundries has announced the appointment of Magnus Matthiasson as Chief Procurement Officer (CPO). He will be tasked with leading the global purchasing activities and will work from the offices in Silicon Valley. Essentially, he will need to weigh Globalfoundries' prospective investments and the relations...

28 February 2012
11:14 GMT

As Radeon GPU Supply Struggles, AMD Chooses New Executive

Yet another staff change has come upon Advanced Micro Devices, though this time the news is not about an executive leaving but a new one being chosen. According to the latest announcement on the part of the Sunnyvale, California-based company, there is a new senior vice president and general manager of Global Accou...

17 February 2012
03:46 GMT

AMD Chief Graphics Officer Leaves the Company

We did not expect to have to write about any AMD news today besides the launch of the Cape Verde GPU, but it looks like some other things are happening in the Sunnyvale camp. According to AnandTech, a Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has decided to leave the company. This is not so surp...

15 February 2012
03:59 GMT

AMD's Senior VP and Chief Sales Officer Departs

It appears that the management changes at Advanced Micro Devices are far from over, with yet another company executive taking his leave. In a rather short announcement, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has let the world know that Emilio Ghilardi is departing. The man had held the position of sen...

8 February 2012
08:01 GMT

Micron's New CEO Is D. Mark Durcan

It was just days ago that Micron's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Steve Appleton, was reported dead after suffering a plane crash.The company has now decided who the new chief executive is going to be, namely D. Mark Durcan, who has served as Chief Operating Officer of Micron since 2007.He will also serve on Mic...

6 February 2012
11:18 GMT

Former Palm CEO Leaves HP

We have just spotted a piece of information that won't really come as a mind-blowing revelation to anyone who knows about the fate of HP's (previously Palm's) webOS. Going right to the point, former Palm CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Jon Rubinstein has revealed that he is leaving HP. The man came t...

30 January 2012
03:18 GMT

Intel Makes Some Changes to Its Own Leadership Squad

It looks like HP, Dell and Globalfoundries aren't the only IT companies making staff changes. Intel has just announced some management changes of its own, namely promotions and rotations. For one, worldwide manufacturing senior vice president Brian Krzanich has been made COO (Chief Operating Officer). Seco...

21 January 2012
07:03 GMT

HP Chooses New Chief Strategy Officer, Bill Veghte

As it was bound to happen at some point or another, HP has made a new management change, or at least a modification to its existing roster. HP has just announced that it has decided on who will assume the position of chief strategy officer. For those that are unaware of what the job entails, the CSO has to figure ...

18 January 2012
05:26 GMT

Globalfoundries Chooses New Marketing Leader

Globalfoundries has reorganized its global sales and marketing division, as well as the customer engineering and quality functions, so it needed someone to lead the new section. Full-service semiconductor foundry Globalfoundries has just issued a press release in which it announces that Michael Noonen has joined th...

16 January 2012
08:10 GMT

AMD Chooses New Senior VP and CSO

Looks like Advanced Micro Devices finally found someone the new CEO (Rory Read) deemed worthy of being handed the mantle of senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer. The man who will fill the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at AMD from now on is Rajan Naik. Previously a Partner in McKinsey...

9 January 2012
10:09 GMT

Dell Reforms, Makes One Big Sales Organization

Dell has just made an official announcement in which it reveals that its business is undergoing a fairly major restructuring. Dell's latest words shouldn't come as such a great surprise to those who've been keeping up to speed with technology news. After all, the year 2011 was hard on many companies...

6 January 2012
18:41 GMT

HP WebOS Developer Relations Community Manager Leaves Too

HP is painting a pretty bleak picture for its webOS division, beginning serious staff reductions right around the winter holidays, but there is little stopping it now. In fact, none other than webOS Developer Relations Community Manager Chuq von Rospach has announced that he, too, is leaving. In this case, at lea...

14 December 2011
08:49 GMT

HP General Counsel Michael J. Holston Leaves

Some may have thought that HP had finally settled down and that its leading staff had been mostly decided upon, but it looks like that is not altogether true, as Michael J. Holston, executive vice president and general counsel, has left as well. In the company's own words, the man “will leave the company...

13 December 2011
03:55 GMT

Apple Awards Execs with $60 Million Bonuses

In the wake of several executives leaving Apple, the Cupertino, California based company is awarding those who are sticking around with $60 million bonuses each.The bonus is calculated in Apple shares (at the current trading price of $400), of which half vest in a couple of years, whereas the other half vests in 2016...

7 November 2011
02:28 GMT

Former Adobe VP Thomas Nielsen Becomes RealNetworks CEO

RealNetworks has been searching for a new chief executive for over half a year and, at long last, the new leader has been decided upon. After RealNetworks spent about as much time as AMD did on CEO searching, it is Thomas Nielsen that will pick up the mantle of chief executive officer (CEO) from Mike Lunsford. The...

2 November 2011
11:32 GMT

HP Chief Technology Officer Quits Too

Even though HP already said it was keeping the PC division, it still ended up losing yet another executive, this once the Chief Technology Officer. The person to leave HP's fold this time is a man who spent the better part of the last decade with the company. Phil McKinney, the CTO, did not disclose the reas...

2 November 2011
03:37 GMT

IBM Gets New CEO Too, Virginia M. Rometty Takes the Reins

This month is definitely one when many executive changes happen on the IT market, as IBM adds its list to that of companies which got, or will get, a new CEO or other executive. IBM revealed that it decided who will lead its operations starting on January 1, 2012, when she becomes a board member as well. It is V...

26 October 2011
14:01 GMT

Yet Another HP Executive Leaves the Company

Amidst the continued uncertainty as to what direction HP is headed in, yet another executive has left the ranks of the company, not long after the Chief Strategy and Technology Office did the same. It is reported that HP's VP of worldwide developer relations has decided to leave and look for employment opportu...

25 October 2011
04:38 GMT

HP Going Through Management Changes Yet Again

With all the things that HP has been going through, things are shaky at best, but it looks like the uncertainties are only deepening now that yet another executive is leaving. In a move similar and, at the same time, unlike the one that led to the change of CEO, HP is going through another executive roster change. ...

21 October 2011
11:04 GMT

AMD Products Group General Manager Rick Bergman Leaves the Company

While HP probably takes the cake in terms of leadership changes for this week, Advanced Micro Devices isn't far off, what with Products Group General Manager Rick Bergman leaving the corporation. Advanced Micro Devices may have gone for months with just an Interim CEO, but it finally got a more permanent lea...

23 September 2011
03:19 GMT

New Company Created by Former AMD Officials

The IT industry can be an unforgiving place and people can lose their positions instantly, but sometimes they recover, as seems to have happened to two certain men who used to be part of AMD's staff. The consumer base may mostly pay attention to the hardware and software developments on the IT market, but so...

29 June 2011
02:41 GMT

HP Dragged Down By Declining PC Market, Shakes Up Executive Structure

It looks like the slowdown of PC sales has caught up to HP the world's largest supplier of computers, whose quarterly results during the winter periods proved so underwhelming that the outfit decided on some drastic changes to its team of executive officers.It will be a while before the IT market forgets about ...

14 June 2011
05:17 GMT

Women Executives Have Higher Job-Quitting Rate

Women executives are more than twice as likely to leave their job as men, whether it is voluntarily or involuntarily, a new Oregon State University study suggests.For this study, main author John Becker-Blease, an assistant professor of finance at Oregon State University, and the study's co-authors at Loyola Mar...

5 October 2010
02:58 GMT

Papermaster Erased from Apple's Bio Site

The brief bio of Mark Papermaster, posted among those of Apple's senior executives, disappeared this week, CNet is reporting. Apple, however, hasn't pulled the official press release announcing his new position within the “devices” division of the company.While the document is no longer present ...

12 November 2008
05:14 GMT

Apple Execs Get Millions in Bonuses

Regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal that members of Apple's executive team have been granted more than $122 million in restricted stock-based compensation for their current and future efforts, reflecting the company's growing Mac, iPod and iPhone businesses.Nine grants were...

1 October 2008
02:40 GMT

Another AMD Executive Flees Away From the Sinking Boat

AMD has lost yet another key executive, as Stephen DiFranco, the company's corporate vice president of consumer sales and marketing resigned. The chip manufacturer silently announced its departure from the company, and it is alleged that DiFranco was rushed out on the back door mostly because of the company'...

23 April 2008
03:47 GMT

Cisco Executive to Step Down After 14 Years With the Company

Cisco's executive vice president and chief development officer, Charles Giancarlo, will resign from his post as of December 31. The 50-year old executive was the second-in-command at the company and will put an end to a 14-year career with the networking expert.According to the company CEO John Chambers, he repe...

21 December 2007
06:00 GMT

AMD Is Hiring a Sales Chief

After the announced departure of its sales and marketing department Henri Richard, Advanced Micro Devices, better known as AMD, must now look to hire somebody else for the job and that as soon as possible because the day when the Barcelona core processors are hitting the server market is coming closer and without a c...

24 August 2007
09:03 GMT


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