By main the expanded and rebranded HP Options group, former Poly CEO Dave Shull is about to play an even bigger function within the PC and print large’s development technique, which incorporates its rising portfolios of AI improvement options and videoconferencing merchandise.
A reorganization at HP Inc. has given the chief of its software program and providers enterprise an elevated function within the PC and print large’s development technique by giving him obligations over two extra divisions, together with the Poly enterprise he beforehand led.
HP chief Dave Shull (pictured) stated on LinkedIn final Friday that he’ll lead an expanded group referred to as HP Options that mixes the Workforce Options group he has overseen since 2022 with the Hybrid Techniques and Poly collaboration enterprise in addition to the Superior Compute Options division, which incorporates HP’s AI improvement software program.
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Consequently, Division President of Hybrid Techniques Helen Sheirbon and Division President of Advance Compute Options Jim Nottingham have joined Shull’s HP Options group.
The reorganization was disclosed slightly greater than every week after HP announced that print chief Tuan Tran will tackle the brand new function as president of expertise and innovation whereas 30-year HP veteran Anneliese Olson will transfer into his earlier function.
In his LinkedIn publish, Shull stated the brand new identify of his division “displays an even bigger imaginative and prescient and a step ahead to broaden our capabilities and the way we help the way forward for work.”
“This strategic shift helps HP’s imaginative and prescient for revolutionary options, AI-driven knowledge science, and seamless collaboration, all aimed toward making not solely work—however life—simpler for our prospects,” he wrote.
The reorganization represents a reunion of types for Shull, who was CEO of Poly for 2 years previous to the videoconferencing large’s $3.3 billion sale to HP in 2022. Earlier than becoming a member of Poly in 2020, Shull held CEO roles at TiVo and The Climate Channel after serving in prime govt roles at Dish Community for greater than six years.
How Shull Will Play A Greater Function In HP’s Development Companies
The reorganization implies that Shull is about to play an even bigger function in HP’s development technique, which was first outlined in CEO Enrique Lores’ Future Prepared Plan two years ago.
Whereas the plan referred to as for a significant discount in spending—together with making as much as 6,000 job cuts—by 2025, it additionally directed HP to put money into companies the corporate anticipated to develop sooner than its core PC and print companies.
These key development areas, as HP calls them, embody the software program options and providers which have been beneath Shull’s purview since 2022 in addition to the Hybrid Techniques enterprise, which incorporates Poly options and now additionally falls beneath Shull’s watch.
HP’s Advance Compute Options enterprise could not have been recognized as a key development space within the Future Prepared Plan, however the firm actually expects it to drive income development sooner or later, as evidenced by a number of bulletins over the previous yr.
Most not too long ago, the Advance Compute Options division introduced on the HP Think about 2024 occasion in October a brand new proprietary software program resolution referred to as Z by HP Boost, which provides knowledge scientists and AI builders a method to sharing GPU sources throughout workstation PCs.
A part of the Z by HP workstation PC model, the answer is about to launch in early 2025 and can complement the division’s not too long ago launched AI Studio software program, which the corporate has referred to as the “world’s most complete workstation resolution for AI improvement.”
The Advance Compute Options enterprise additionally launched an add-on for AI Studio referred to as Gen AI Lab, which HP has stated will allow builders to construct reliable generative AI fashions by offering a trust layer that may detect and proper bias.
In an interview with CRN in July, Nottingham, the top of Advance Compute Options, stated he has massive ambitions for what HP can do within the AI software program improvement house, the place the corporate hopes to broaden past its footprint of HP-branded workstation PCs.
“It is altering and there are new capabilities that no one’s supporting right now. And we see that as only a nice alternative,” he stated.
‘All I Care About Is Enterprise Development’
When CRN checked in with Shull on the HP Think about 2024 occasion in September, he stated his group goes “all in on” bettering worker expertise. On the middle of this effort is the Workforce Experience Platform, which is able to consolidate 64 existing management services and introduce new capabilities for tracking worker satisfaction.
“Candidly, from a [profit and loss] perspective, all I care about is enterprise development, and so whether or not it is the channel companions promoting it, or whether or not we’re promoting it, it really would not matter to me. It is development that HP is attempting to generate on behalf of our prospects,” he stated.
The chief of a significant U.S. resolution supplier stated HP is making a wise transfer by reorganizing the Hybrid Techniques and Advance Compute Options companies beneath Shull’s rebranded and expanded HP Options group.
“If there’s one factor I’ve discovered in 28 years of doing this, when you develop into stagnant, you die, so you’ll want to be understanding what the market’s doing, what the expertise tendencies are, after which make changes within the group to help that,” stated Bob Venero, CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Future Tech Enterprise.
