Lenovo Realigns Business Following Successful Merger Integration
19 Marzo 2015 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Gianfranco Lanci Named Lenovo Corporate
President in Addition to company COO role
Gerry Smith Becomes EVP and COO of New
Consolidated PC and Enterprise Businesses
Lenovo (HK:0992) (PINK SHEETS:LNVGY) today announced a
realignment of its business groups and geographies following the
successful integration of its latest acquisitions, putting in place
an organizational structure designed to drive even greater speed,
synergy and global growth.
In a new leadership role, Gianfranco Lanci has been named
Corporate President of Lenovo effective April 1. Lanci becomes
leader of all of Lenovo’s geographic sales organizations and adds
responsibility for the company’s Enterprise Business Group to his
existing role as head of its PC Business Group. He will have
global, end-to-end responsibility for performance and business
management systems in these areas, while retaining his current
position as Lenovo Chief Operating Officer. Lanci joined Lenovo in
April 2012 and has 30 years’ experience across the PC business,
including leadership roles at Texas Instruments and Acer.
Lenovo also announced the appointment of Gerry Smith to
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of PC &
EBG (Personal Computer and Enterprise Business Group), reporting to
Lanci. In his expanded role, Smith will have responsibility for
harnessing growth and profitability for two core businesses that
today account for more than 80 percent of total revenue, and
leading Global Operations for these businesses. Currently, Smith
leads Lenovo’s Enterprise Business Group and Americas region. Smith
joined Lenovo in 2006 and has a proven track record for driving
growth through strong leadership and end-to-end execution. He built
the world-beating global supply chain that helped elevate Lenovo to
the #1 position in PCs.
Lenovo’s latest organizational move reflects a historic year for
the company. A decade after its groundbreaking acquisition of IBM's
PC business, Lenovo last year completed its two largest global
deals ever, Motorola Mobility, making Lenovo #3 in global
smartphones, and the System x server business from IBM, expanding
Lenovo’s Enterprise capabilities. At the same time, the company
achieved a record high milestone of 20 percent market share as the
world’s #1 PC manufacturer while posting record revenues and
profits.
“As we approach our new fiscal year, Lenovo is a bigger and more
diverse company than ever. With the successful integration of our
recent acquisitions, we have three major growth engines – PC,
Enterprise and Mobile,” said Yuanqing Yang, chairman and CEO of
Lenovo. “So, we must have the right structure and focus on
outstanding execution in every market and with every customer.
Today, we have a unique opportunity to address these structural
needs and best leverage the talents of our leaders and our team
while also celebrating the achievements of several of our top
leaders.”
Additional leadership roles were announced for PC & EBG,
reporting to Smith:
- Jay Parker, promoted to Senior
Vice President, Enterprise Business Group: Parker currently leads
Lenovo North America operations and brings deep customer focus,
operational expertise and industry knowledge to this critical
role.
- Tom Shell, promoted to Senior
Vice President, PC Business Group: Shell currently heads Lenovo’s
commercial and consumer laptop, desktop, workstation, and monitor
business and has been a long-time leader in PCs who has regularly
beaten market performance and ensured that PCs remained a healthy,
growing business at the heart of Lenovo’s success.
- Johnson Jia, promoted to Senior
Vice President of PC & EBG Global Operations: Jia currently
plays a key role in global supply chain operations, helping drive
strong execution, supplier relations and innovation and flexibility
within supply chain.
Lenovo’s two other business groups, Mobile Business Group and
Ecosystem and Cloud Services, and their functional leaders remain
the same, reporting to CEO Yuanqing Yang.
The company also promoted former VP of Strategy Qingtong
Zhou to the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Information
Officer.
With today’s announcement, Lenovo is realigning its geographic
structure to split the previous Americas Group into two – Latin
America will continue to be led by Luca Rossi, and North
America will be managed by Lanci in the interim while a search is
conducted for a permanent leader. Lenovo will continue to operate
as before in its other geographies – China, led by Tong
Fuyao; EMEA, led by Aymar de Lencquesaing; and
Asia-Pacific, led by Rod Lappin. All of these organizations
report to Lanci.
About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 0992) (PINK SHEETS: LNVGY) is a $39 billion global
Fortune 500 company and a leader in providing innovative consumer,
commercial, and enterprise technology. Our portfolio of
high-quality, secure products and services covers PCs (including
the legendary Think and multimode YOGA brands), workstations,
servers, storage, smart TVs and a family of mobile products like
smartphones (including the Motorola brand), tablets and apps. Join
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us at www.lenovo.com.
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