HPE announced a reshuffling of its executive team and cloud organization.
The Helion OpenStack (HOS) and Helion CloudSystem teams will note be part of the company’s Enterprise Group (EG) and will become part of the newly created Software-Defined & Cloud Group (SDCG), led by Ric Lewis.
HPE is aligning its sales team into a single organization, led by Peter Ryan. Jim Merritt, who currently leads Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), will lead the North America sales regions. HPE’s current Managing Director of Americas Sales, Robert Vrij, will be leaving the company at the end of the year. Phil Davis, currently head of Storage Sales in APJ, will now be responsible for sales in APJ.
In additio, Bill Philbin will be taking over as head of the Storage business; the role previously held by Manish Goel, who has decided to leave HPE to pursue other opportunities.
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