Role and Company
General Manager, Hewlett Packard
Expertise
25 years experience in information technology
Location
Palo Alto , CA
About David
An accomplished, results oriented senior executive with demonstrated success driving category defining businesses to successful outcomes for investors and employees. A proven leader with strong communication skills and broad experience in financing, strategic partnering, marketing, strategy and team building.
Summary:
Over 20 years of industry experience and key responsibility at leading technology growth companies:
* Business development/Strategic Partnering
* Sales & Marketing
* Product definition and planning
* Global operations
* Equity investment evaluation/structuring/negotiation (early, late, PIPE, recapitalization)
* Corporate governance: Board member of venture financed companies
Areas of Expertise
* Storage
* SaaS
* Cloud computing
* Networking
* Virtualization
* Enterprise software
Specialties: • Business development expert who scales businesses up and into new markets and customer segments
• Negotiated and closed sales, licensing and partnership deals to drive revenue and business objectives
• Repeated success turning great ideas into category leaders
• Proven ability to manage global operations
• Demonstrated success in influential positions in both start-up and large company environments
•Built and managed high performance teams & dedicated, effective global organizations