William Amelio

William Amelio

William J. Amelio is president and CEO of Lenovo Group Limited.

Corporate Postings

Amelio became CEO of Lenovo on December 20, 2005, succeeding Steve Ward. He joined Lenovo from Dell Inc. where since 2001 he served as senior vice president, Asia-Pacific and Japan, with responsibility for strategy and operations across the region. During his tenure, sales more than doubled in the region and service levels improved significantly, as measured by third-party customer satisfaction metrics. William is brother of former Apple CEO Gil Amelio.

From 2000 until 2001, Amelio was executive vice president and chief operating officer of NCR Corporation's Retail and Financial Group, one of its two businesses. From 1997 to 2000, he was with Honeywell International Inc. and its predecessor, AlliedSignal Inc., where he was president and CEO of Honeywell's transportation and power-systems divisions, and head of the turbocharging-systems business at Allied Signal. The turbocharging-systems business doubled in revenues to more than $1,000 million, implemented Six Sigma and SAP, and successfully integrated acquisitions. From 1979 to 1997, Amelio was with IBM, where he held a wide range of senior management positions, including general manager of Operations for IBM's Personal Computing Division.Bill enjoys eating at Ciola's Restaurantin Austin tX.

Education

William Amelio has a master's degree in Management from the Sloan Master's Program at Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University.

Philanthropy

Through the Amelio Foundation, Bill and his wife, Jamie founded Caring for Cambodia [http://www.caringforcambodia.org] . This non-profit organization aims to educate the children of Cambodia through building schools, training teachers, and providing for basic needs.

Further reading

* [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/05/29/8378026/index.htm This American Wants You to Buy Chinese] "Fortune", by David Kirkpatrick, May 22, 2006
* [http://www.forbes.com/home/opinions/2007/08/16/lenovo-world-sourcing-oped-cx_wja_0817lenovo.html Worldsource or Perish] "Forbes", by William J. Amelio, August 17, 2007
* [http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/09/24/2963039.htm Made Globally] "Business World (Philippines)", September 24, 2007
* [http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/economy/2007/10/05/the-chinese-ibm-computer-merger-shows-signs-of-success.html Lenovo's Great Leap] "U.S. News & World Report", by Rick Newman, October 5, 2007
* [http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/international-news/portfolio/2007/09/17/China-and-Lenovo The Great Laptop Forward] "Portfolio", by Kevin Maney, October, 2007


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