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Director, Venture Management, HP
I currently lead HP's venture management to work with leading venture capitalists to enhance communication and collaboration between HP and venture community. Prior to HP, I spent more than six years with Cisco Systems, and held several senior positions leading internal incubation, software investment and M&A, technology and business consulting in both North America and Asia Pacific. I use this blog to discuss interesting venture and technology trends and startups.
August 24, 2006
IT Management
I am going to be a panelist for Office 2.0 conference coming up in San Francisco in Oct. I think the logistics is being worked out right now, but we have a good list of speakers lined up. What’s different between Office 2.0 and Web 2.0 is that Office 2.0 is SMB focused vs consumer. It is funny to see the full circle of centralized computing. When I first started my career, I was a programmer on MV...
July 25, 2006
IT Management
HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Mercury Interactive Corp., a leading IT management software and services company, through a cash tender offer for $52.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $4.5 billion, which is net of existing cash and debt.
July 18, 2006
IT Management
I just got a req open for a venture manager position in my group. It is a relatively senior position. I am looking for a person to help me analyze new business opportunities in emerging technology markets, manage VC relationships, and potentially do some venture investing. Qualification wise, I am looking for a person who understands technology industry trends and venture community, can think clea...
June 12, 2006
IT Management
BusinessWeek has recently posted an article on HP is now outselling IBM for the first time in tech history . According to the article, HP will finish 2006 with greater annual sales than Big Blue for the first time ever: $91 billion for HP vs. $90.5 billion for IBM. Also, since HP's has one foot in consumer and the other in enterprise, vs IBM is almost all enterprise focused, HP's revenue is expect...
April 5, 2006
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