HPE loses second key exec in as many weeks

HPE has lost another key exec in just over a week with CTO Mark Potter handing in his notice amid a global reshuffle of senior leadership that was itself caused by the earlier exit of Phil Davis, the second-in-command. Mark Potter, the company's chief techie and head of its R&D outfit, HP Labs, will 'retire' in the summer, …

[Doctor Huh?]

How Sad

Could you not have included one "Rearranging the deck chairs on the Itanic" reference for old times' sake?

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Re: How Sad

This is more like lowering haystacks from the decks of the Lusitania...

There's a towel in one of these pockets...

[Anonymous Coward]

you clearly saw a copy of the email

... so you could have gone on to explain that he is actually retiring, but there we go - not as good a story then eh?

[Zippy´s Sausage Factory]

Re: you clearly saw a copy of the email

Is he really retiring, or are they just purging the ones that they think might vote in favour of a takeover by a Xerox?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: you clearly saw a copy of the email

What ? Xerox wants to take over both HP and HPE ??

(especially after good ol' COVID made them cancel their attempt at taking over HP...)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: you clearly saw a copy of the email

Yeah.

Like everything that ever came out of the HR/PR department (especially large companies) regarding the upper echelons moving on has been the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth....

[Anonymous Coward]

Three years on from my spell at HPE...

...and there isn't a single name on the list of heads of HPE businesses that I recognise.

That's some level of churn at the top.

[Anonymous Coward]

Beginning of the rot in ISS ....

Thanks to delightful combination of arrogance and ignorance, Mark Potter oversaw the loss of 10 pts of X86 server revenue market-share during his tenure as VP & GM of ISS, from ~40% to ~30%. Each pt. of market-share is worth about $112M of gross margin. So - if like Mark, you can do the math but just don't understand it - that's about a loss of $1.1 billion/year in gross margin. It's a loss of market-share - and $ of margin - from which HPE has never recovered. Enjoy your retirement Mark. You should have put out to grass a long, long time ago.