Bill Veghte
Hewlett-Packard, this week named a new chief strategy officer: Bill Veghte, the current executive vice president of HP Software and the former senior vice president of Microsoft’s Windows business.
“As chief strategy officer, Veghte will be responsible for keeping HP on the cutting edge of innovation,” HP said in its announcement on Tuesday. “He will work with HP’s senior business and technology leaders to help define the IT industry’s future and make certain HP continues to lead the way.”
Veghte will retain his current title on top of his chief strategy officer role. Some of his new responsibilities will be overseeing HP’s cloud efforts — which include a major push into the public cloud — and the webOS mobile platform.
Veghte’s promotion comes in the wake of a tumultuous period for HP. In August 2011, the company surprised the tech industry by announcing that it was considering a spinoff of its PC business and the discontinuation of its webOS-based devices.
A month later, the company fired CEO Leo Apotheker less than a year after appointing him, and named Meg Whitman as his successor. Whitman subsequently announced that HP will, in fact, keep its PC business and that it plans to contribute webOS to the open source community.
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