Prominent IT veteran Rosemary Ho (
According to a company statement, Ho resigned to pursue other career goals and will work till the end of next month.
"Ho offered her resignation to the Singapore head office six months ago, but it is hard to find a suitable candidate for the top position," said Emily Chang (
The Singapore office has a shortlist of potential candidates, with chances equally split between an internal promotion or the external recruitment of an IT professional, she said.
Replacement
The replacement announcement would be made after the Lunar New Year holiday, Chang said, adding that Ho expected to reveal news about some charity and educational work after her resignation.
Ho, along with ex-Microsoft Taiwan general manager Eunice Chiu (
Under her leadership, the merger of the companies' sales teams was completed in just 60 days instead of the original 100-day timeframe. It meant the merger was completed in Taiwan earlier than HP's other Asia-Pacific branches.
"Ho made huge contributions to HP throughout her 11 years of service, especially in improving local sales and establishing a great industry network," Tom Iannotti, senior vice president and managing director of HP Asia-Pacific and Japan, said in the statement.
Faithful
HP stuck with the same Taiwanese suppliers following its acquisition of Compaq -- a strong relationship demonstrated by HP chief executive Mark Hurd's first visit to Taiwan in December to meet with some of those suppliers. But industry watchers said the company has in fact squeezed the margins of local suppliers to drive down its unit costs on all computer hardware purchased here.
Even so, the company has for years been the largest foreign procurer of Taiwanese IT products including desktop and laptop computers as well as servers and other computer peripherals, followed by Dell Inc and Sony Corp.
Last year, the company procured approximately US$20 billion worth of IT products from Taiwanese firms, up 17.6 percent from 2005, statistics from the Ministry of Economic Affairs showed.
MARKET LEADERSHIP: Investors are flocking to Nvidia, drawn by the company’s long-term fundamntals, dominant position in the AI sector, and pricing and margin power Two years after Nvidia Corp made history by becoming the first chipmaker to achieve a US$1 trillion market capitalization, an even more remarkable milestone is within its grasp: becoming the first company to reach US$4 trillion. After the emergence of China’s DeepSeek (深度求索) sent the stock plunging earlier this year and stoked concerns that outlays on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure were set to slow, Nvidia shares have rallied back to a record. The company’s biggest customers remain full steam ahead on spending, much of which is flowing to its computing systems. Microsoft Corp, Meta Platforms Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc are
Luxury fashion powerhouse Prada SpA has acknowledged the ancient Indian roots of its new sandal design after the debut of the open-toe footwear sparked a furor among Indian artisans and politicians thousands of miles from the catwalk in Italy. Images from Prada’s fashion show in Milan last weekend showed models wearing leather sandals with a braided design that resembled handmade Kolhapuri slippers with designs dating back to the 12th century. A wave of criticism in the media and from lawmakers followed over the Italian brand’s lack of public acknowledgement of the Indian sandal design, which is named after a city in the
The US overtaking China as Taiwan’s top export destination could boost industrial development and wage growth, given the US is a high-income economy, an economist said yesterday. However, Taiwan still needs to diversify its export markets due to the unpredictability of US President Donald Trump’s administration, said Chiou Jiunn-rong (邱俊榮), an economics professor at National Central University. Taiwan’s exports soared to a record US$51.74 billion last month, driven by strong demand for artificial intelligence (AI) products and continued orders, with information and communication technology (ICT) and audio/video products leading all sectors. The US reclaimed its position as Taiwan’s top export market, accounting for
INVESTOR RESILIENCE? An analyst said that despite near-term pressures, foreign investors tend to view NT dollar strength as a positive signal for valuation multiples Morgan Stanley has flagged a potential 10 percent revenue decline for Taiwan’s tech hardware sector this year, as a sharp appreciation of the New Taiwan dollar begins to dent the earnings power of major exporters. In what appears to be the first such warning from a major foreign brokerage, the US investment bank said the currency’s strength — fueled by foreign capital inflows and expectations of US interest rate cuts — is compressing profit margins for manufacturers with heavy exposure to US dollar-denominated revenues. The local currency has surged about 10 percent against the greenback over the past quarter and yesterday breached
RSS