Hewlett Packard has assigned a new CEO for their company with a pretty amazing track record. Here are some facts about him:
Resigned from SAP in February after after less than a year at the helm.
A 20-year veteran of SAP
Career at SAP had been mostly in sales and marketing. Before ascending to the CEO suite, his most recent post involved running SAP’s customer operations, including relationships with huge corporations that bring in the bulk of SAP revenue and profit.
He can talk trash. After Oracle chief Larry Ellison’s 2005 declaration of a “technology war” against SAP, and Oracle’s then-President Charles Phillips’ boasted that the company soon would be “seeing the whites of” SAP’s eyes, Apotheker, shot back, “Make my day.” (This passes for exciting among technology executives.)
Graduated with a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Born in Aachen, Germany on September 18, 1953
” In 1942, his parents escaped the Nazis, moving from the Polish-Ukrainian border to the Soviet Union, and then Aachen, West germany, where he was born. When he was aged seven, his family moved to Belgium, before settling in Paris.” — The Jewish Chronicle.
Was awarded the French Légion d’honneur in 2007 in recognition of his business leadership and contribution to the French economy.
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