vendredi 24 mars 2006

New Managing Director in France

Patrick Starck, Managing Director of HP France and Vice President and General Manager Technology Solutions Group, has made the decision to leave HP and pursue another career opportunity.

Johan Deschuyffeleer will serve as the Managing Director of HP France and Vice President and General Manager of the Technology Solutions Group, on an interim basis, effective immediately. Since 2004, Johan has been Vice President of Go-To-Market Strategy and Sales Productivity, leading the company-wide effort to improve value sales effectiveness and enable value and volume sales success in every market, region and country where HP does business. Prior to that, Johan served as Vice President and Country General Manager for HP Belgium, where he played a leading role in building and maintaining customer loyalty and trust throughout the HP/Compaq merger. While serving earlier as Managing Director for the Belgium-Luxembourg region, Johan succeeded in transforming the company into one of the main suppliers of IT infrastructure solutions in these two countries.

Johan holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from IHRB University in Brussels. He also earned a Master's Degree in Management from IMD International in Lausanne followed by further qualification from the Vlerick School.