HP Announces Executive Leadership Appointments
January 19 2021 - 4:15PM
HP Inc. today announced executive leadership appointments that
further strengthen the company’s innovation capabilities and
support its long-term growth strategy.
Sarabjit Singh ('Savi') Baveja has joined as
Chief Strategy and Incubation Officer. Leveraging HP's unique
assets and competencies, Baveja will lead HP’s strategy,
corporate development and new business incubation efforts focused
on driving new sources of growth and long-term value creation. He
joins from Bain & Company, where he was a senior partner and
head of new business incubation and also advised HP on a range of
strategic business priorities. Baveja will work closely with the HP
executive leadership team to identify, develop and launch new
products, services and business models across the company’s
portfolio. This includes a focus on leveraging HP’s microfluidics
technology to create disruptive new businesses and applications in
the health and wellness space.
Tolga Kurtoglu has joined HP as Chief
Technology Officer and Global Head of HP Labs. Kurtoglu is the
former CEO of Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and global head of
research at Xerox. Kurtoglu will lead HP Labs, one of the world’s
most preeminent and seasoned industrial research laboratories,
where he will drive a renewed commitment to cutting-edge research
and innovation. He will also lead the company’s technology strategy
and engagement with the technical and scientific communities.
“Savi and Tolga each bring deep experience and expertise that
support our strategy to advance HP’s leadership in Personal Systems
and Print, disrupt new industries with our technology and
intellectual property, and transform our company for the future,”
said Enrique Lores, HP President and CEO. “Their leadership further
strengthens our ability to innovate for customers and capitalize on
attractive growth opportunities as we create new products, services
and business models.”
Concurrent with these appointments, HP announced that
Kim Rivera, President of Strategy & Business
Management and Chief Legal Officer, has made the personal decision
to depart HP following a successful five-year tenure with the
company. To ensure a seamless transition, Rivera will remain a
special advisor to CEO Enrique Lores and the company through the
end of 2021. The Board has appointed Harvey
Anderson, HP’s General Counsel, as Chief Legal Officer and
Corporate Secretary. Anderson will join the company’s executive
leadership team.
“Kim has been integral to HP’s success since our early days as a
standalone company in 2015. Her business acumen, legal prowess and
purpose-driven leadership have made a huge impact and built a deep
bench of leaders across her teams. We will benefit from her
contributions for many years to come,” said Lores.
He added, “I am delighted to welcome Harvey to the HP executive
leadership team. His wise counsel, sound judgment and strategic
acuity will continue to serve us well as we deliver on our
strategic priorities.”
All appointments are effective February 1 and each new role
reports to CEO Lores.
Biographies
Sarabjit Singh ('Savi') Baveja - At Bain,
Baveja was a member of the firm's Strategy, Telecommunications,
Media and Technology (TMT), and Advanced Analytics practices and
served on the firm’s board of directors. His key focal areas
included machine learning, artificial intelligence, and digital
disruption. During his three decades with the firm, he spearheaded
multi-year transformations at several leading global technology
companies and also founded Trooly, a predictive analytics startup
that was purchased by Airbnb in 2017. Baveja holds an MBA from
Harvard Business School and a degree in electrical engineering from
Stanford University.
Tolga Kurtoglu - During his tenure as the CEO
of Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Kurtoglu led the transformation
of PARC from a research organization to a world-class open
innovation business. More recently, he was the Head of Global
Research at Xerox, where he oversaw the company’s research centers
and distributed advanced technology and engineering teams. Prior to
this he held roles at NASA Ames Research Center and Dell. Kurtoglu
has numerous patents and publications in the fields of automation
and machine intelligence, fault tolerant system design, and
3D/digital manufacturing. He earned his doctorate in mechanical
engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his master’s
in the same field from Carnegie Mellon.
Harvey Anderson - Anderson
joined HP in 2017 as deputy general counsel for the company’s
Personal Systems and 3D Printing business units. He has more than
25 years of experience in public policy, regulatory compliance,
corporate and commercial transactions, and IP litigation. Prior to
joining HP, he served as chief legal officer at AVG Technologies, a
leading provider of software security solutions. He has also held
senior legal roles at Mozilla Corporation, Seven Networks, and
Netscape/AOL. Anderson earned his Juris Doctorate degree from the
University of San Francisco School of Law and his undergraduate
degree in engineering from Marquette University.
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