NEW DELHI: The current president of HP India, Arun Thiagarajan would be
exiting from the new entity of the HP and Compaq merged operations in India.
Although this was not official, the appointment of Balu Doraisamy, currently MD
of Compaq India, as the head of the merged operations of HP and Compaq in India
was official.
Doraisamy is also expected to be the head of the Enterprise Systems Group.
Along with Thiagarajan, sources say that the combined entity will shed close
to 150 to 200 people in the first stage with the number going up later on.
Currently there are close to 700 people working in Compaq India and another 300
odd in HP India.
Along with the appointment of Doraisamy, some other senior level appointments
have also been made, which are expected to be announced sometime in the middle
of next week.
Sources told CNS that Ravi Aggarwal who is currently VP (Business Customer
Sales Organization) of HP India, will head the Imaging and Printing Group. Ravi
Swaminathan, VP (Personal Systems) of Compaq India, is slated to take over as
the head of the Personal Systems Group. Kapil Jain will move on to head the
Services business from his current position of VP (Services) of Compaq India.
Neelam Dhawan who is Director (Sales) of Compaq India, will continue to look
after the sales activities of the new company.
Earlier in April, HP had announced the names of 150 senior managers including
those who will directly report to the heads of HP's new businesses and those who
will oversee HP's regional sales efforts in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East
and Africa, Latin America and North America.
Paul Chan has been appointed as the Regional GM (Asia Pacific) with
additional responsibility for the Enterprise Systems Group. Siaou-Sze Lien will
be the new GM (Services), Asia Pacific. Michael Hoffman has been appointed as
the GM (Imaging and Printing Group), Asia Pacific. Adrian Koch will be the new
GM (Personal Systems Group), Asia Pacific.