Ann Livermore

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name = Ann Livermore


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birth_date = birth date and age|1958|08|23
birth_place = Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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residence = Palo Alto, California, USA
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occupation = Company director
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Ann Martinelli Livermore (born 23 August 1958, in Greensboro, North Carolina) is Executive Vice President at Hewlett-Packard and since 2004 has led the Technology Solutions Group business unit of HP.

Life and career

Early life

Livermore was her North Carolina high school's valedictorian and she holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (earned the prestigious Jim Motley Morehead scholarship) and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Hewlett-Packard

Livermore came to HP right out of graduate school. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of North Carolina then immediately went on to Stanford, where she earned her MBA in 1982. Livermore has been at HP since 1982 and has worked in a variety of sales, marketing, and research and development jobs before being elected a corporate vice president in 1995.

In 1997 Livermore was also elected to the board of directors of United Parcel Service.

In 1998, when head of HP's software and services business, the company's top executives agreed to put themselves through a 360-degree evaluation. Livermore said "I learned that I'm a very, very well-controlled executive, but that my employees like when I go off the handle every once in a while, you know, show my human side - It reinforced that leadership means touching people's hearts as well as their brains, so since then I haven't worried so much about keeping my lid on." Livermore has been credited with steering HP away from its decentralized culture and hardware mentality and was the brains behind HP's E-services strategy. [cite news | date=2000-10-09 | url=http://www.informationweek.com/807/livermore.htm | title=Women In Technology | publisher=informationweek.com | accessdate=2008-01-24] When HP CEO Lewis Platt announced in March 1999 that he would step down, Livermore confirmed that she wanted the job. Insiders say Livermore was the only internal candidate who made the short list but in July 1999 HP made the former Lucent Technologies executive Carly Fiorina the first female CEO of a Dow 30 company. [cite news | date=1999-08-30 | url=http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_35/b3644121.htm | title=Is Ann Livermore the Hottest Property in the Valley? | publisher=forbes.com | accessdate=2008-01-24]

Since 2004 Livermore has led HP's Technology Solutions Group, a $30 billion-plus business that encompasses storage and servers, software and services. The products and services from this organization serve HP's business customers of all sizes in more than 170 countries. Once thought of as a costly distraction, this group is now seen as a source of future growth. Livermore's name was mentioned as a possible candidate to take over at HP when Carly Fiorina was ousted in February 2005 as CEO. Mark Hurd from NCR Corp. was instead picked to be HP's new CEO. [cite news | date=2005-04-14 | url=http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/story/0,10801,101080,00.html | title=Q&A: HP's Ann Livermore on life after Carly | publisher=computerworld.com | accessdate=2008-01-24]

Livermore was named in Fortune and Forbes annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen. [cite news | url=http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0709/gallery.women_mostpowerful.fortune/13.html | title=50 Most Powerfull Women in 2007 | publisher=money.cnn.com | accessdate=2008-01-24] [cite news | date=2007-08-30 | url=http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/11/biz-07women_Ann-Livermore_AMOV.html | title=The World's 100 Most Powerful Women | publisher=forbes.com | accessdate=2008-01-24]

Personal life

*In 2005 Livermore had a kidney transplant for an undisclosed ailment. [cite news | date=2005-11-01 | url=http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/specialwomen/20051101-inlinetolead.html | title= The Top Women In Line to Lead | publisher=careerjournal.com | accessdate=2008-01-24]

References

External links

* [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/livermore.html HP biography]
* [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches/livermore/ HP speeches]
* [http://www.picsearch.com/pictures/business/business%20people/powerful%20women/ann%20livermore.html Pictures of Ann Livermore] at Picsearch