Manish goel guavus acquisition
Manish goel guavus acquisition
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+Comment HP is appointing Manish Goel to head up its storage operation as a replacement for the departing David Scott.
Scott retired on 6 March, and had the distinction of being employed by HP twice.
After his first stint as an HP exec, he left to start up storage company 3PAR, which was then acquired by HP - with Scott put in place to lead all HP’s storage systems efforts.
Goel will report to Antonio Neri, senior vice president and GM of HP’s Enterprise Group, who is a 20-year HP veteran.
Goel joined Big Data analytics startup Guavus as its CEO after being hand-picked by founder and previous CEO Anukool Lakhina.
It was not a successful engagement and Goel left nine months later, with Lakhina resuming the CEO role.
A LinkedIn profile under Goel's name gives the impression of a career spent mainly as a big company executive.
Messages regarding Goel’s appointment flying around HP use sporting metaphors: “We’re bringing the fight to our competition and we do that through our atti