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Antonio Neri has the master's degree on ADP equipment which he received in Escuela Nacional De Educacion Tecnica and Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. He is also professor of painting and drawing.
Biography
1995
In 1995 came to HP to a position of the support engineer in the service center of the region of EMEA. Then headed the division of HP of Technology Services providing support and advisory services in products and solutions of a line HP Enterprise.
2015-2016
Before separation of HP into two companies — Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. — in 2015 Antonio Neri held a post of the senior vice president and CEO of Servers and HP Networking HP business divisions, being responsible for planning and the organization of research and development, an output of the innovative solutions to the market and strategy implementation on promotion of products.
After that it passed to a position of the executive vice president and CEO of division of HPE Enterprise Group.
Held a post of the president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise later. In this position directed developments and providing solutions of IT infrastructure for the largest and quickly developing companies of the world. Among these solutions there are solutions for hybrid IT infrastructures, intellectual technologies and services.
2017: Appointment of HPE as the head
On November 21, 2017 the CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Meg Whitman announced resignation after six years of the management of the American IT corporation.
Mag Uitmen will officially resign authority of the head of HPE at the end of January, 2018, and on February 1 the 50-year-old president of the company Antonio Neri who by the time of appointment to the top post in HPE worked in the company nearly a quarter of the century and was considered as the most probable successor of Uitmen will become the new CEO. The last will remain in Board of Directors of HPE, Nery will enter there.
After the resignation Uitmen the stocks HPE rose in price more than for 6% during additional biddings after closing of the exchange on November 21, 2017.
According to Mag Uitmen, Nery is an experienced software engineer and works in each division of HPE.
Our company became much less, more flexible and focused. I think, the most suitable time has come now in order that Antonio and new generation of heads took reins of government … We have very good bench of top managers. We have a strategy which is extremely transparent and concentrated. The IT specialist to a brain and bones should be the new CEO. It is Antonio — Uitmen said during the conference devoted to the publication of financial statements. |
According to the analyst of Morningstar Ilya Kundozerov which gives Reuters agency, the head with wide technology experience will help HPE to develop innovations better.
Analyst of Sanford C company. Toni Sacconaghi Bernstein reported that it "is surprised" with change of the head of HPE as, according to him, it was not obvious that the company is ready to such changes, considering existence of a set of other ways for improvement of server business.[1]
2018: 7 things which need to be known about the head of HPE
On October 18, 2018 the CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Antonio Neri gave an interview at the Best of Breed conference where discovered several facts. Seven the most interesting of them are brought by the CRN edition:
1. Nery personally designed an interior of new central office HPE in San Jose.
The new campus of HPE which will open in February, 2019 will become the most modern experience of a digital interior, Nery promised. Considering that Nery is professor of painting and graphics, his judgment can be trusted.
2. Nery speaks four languages.
Antonio Neri is from Argentina and speaks on four languages: Italian, Spanish, English and Dutch. At the same time got a job in Nery's HPE before learned English – employers were so struck by Nery's skills and his technical training that ignorance of language did not become a problem.
3. Nery welcomes development of such areas of work of the company as artificial intelligence and data processing.
Nery admires progress in the relation of AI and processing of data arrays, and he considers that behind them the future lies. Under its management HPE works on a complex of the platforms focused on collecting and use of data: SimpliVity, Synergy, ProLiant.
4. Nery considers that the built-in systems of data protection – the main competitive advantage of HPE
Antonio Neri is sure that such platforms as Gen 10, with the built-in system of cyber security, will provide to the company advantage over competitors. In the conditions of permanent cyberthreats the buyer can trust only those producers which thought of data protection in advance.
5. Nery says that HPE should focus attention on fast solutions and simple architecture.
Nery considers that HPE should be more flexible part of concern and it is easy to respond to needs of users – i.e. to submit simple solutions within the shortest possible time.
6. Nery directs development of HPE in the direction of banks of memory.
To process large arrays of information, computers should have sufficient memory, and it as considers Nery, should be the cornerstone of development of HPE.
7. Nery does not consider that his work is complete of a stress
Harmonious work of a command which are able both to work and to have a rest – here the fact that allows Nery to enjoy the work and to continue to be given it with all energy.[2]
2020: Infection with COVID-19 coronavirus
On June 18, 2020 Antonio Neri reported that he reveals COVID-19 coronavirus. The CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) self-insulated and continues to direct the company far off.
Recently I learned about some sad news about myself. Yesterday the test for COVID-19 yielded positive result. Good news is that I already feel much better and I am going to continue to run business in the normal mode while I am on a quarantine at home — Nery on the Twitter blog wrote on June 18, 2020. |
In the separate message in the same social network the head of HPE said that the HPE Discover online conference will take place in the planned terms — since June 23.
To Antonio Neri posts clients and partners of HPE left comments with the words of support the CEO. Here what was written, for example, by the vice president for business communications and the products HPE Randy Cairns:
I wish you an absolute and speedy recovery. In HPE all of us for you. Thank you for transparency and culture which you created in the company. |
The vice president for sales in the New York company PKA Technologies (the platinum partner of HPE) Paul Cohen called Nery "the inspiring leader" and "an excellent example for imitation" for the fact that he openly told about the diagnosis with COVID-19.
HPE which by June, 2020 works in 170 countries of the world and totals more than 250 thousand partners implemented process of "crisis management" at the end of January when wide circulation of a coronavirus only began. It the "structured and accurately organized process" aiming to provide to each country in which the company works everything that is required to cope with crisis was told by Nery.
The CEO entered a number of charitable initiatives and programs of assistance to partners and said that "the new normality" will have a long-term impact on a working space of employees and purchase of technology by customers.[3]