Gianfranco Lanci promoted to COO and executive vice president, leading the PC business group
Aymar de Lencquesaing joins as president EMEA and senior vice president Lenovo with ambition to drive company to #1 in EMEA
Monday, 3rd February 2014: Lenovo, the world's number one PC company, is appointing Aymar de Lencquesaing as president to head up its business in EMEA while Gianfranco Lanci is promoted to COO (Chief Operating Officer) and executive vice president of Lenovo. Mr Lanci will be responsible for the company's newly formed worldwide PC Group; the EMEA region overall and the mature markets in Asia Pacific, namely Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Mr De Lencquesaing will also join Lenovo's global executive committee as senior vice president Lenovo.
The moves come as part of a global reorganisation that forms Lenovo into four distinct business groups in order to capitalise on the strong business momentum the company is experiencing and opportunities it sees for further growth across the Smart Connected Device (SCD) spectrum:
- PC Business Group - including all Lenovo and Think brands and headed up by Gianfranco Lanci
- Mobile Business Group - smartphones, tablet, smart TV
- Enterprise Business Group - servers and storage
- Ecosystem and Cloud services - including opportunities across both Android and Windows
Commenting on the changes, Lenovo chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing said: "We are in the most exciting phase of our history so far - outperforming the market quarter after quarter; delivering consistent growth in our core PC business globally; and positioning ourselves to become a significant player in both the enterprise and mobility spaces. Our strong results in EMEA are key to our global success. I congratulate Gianfranco on what he has achieved in EMEA so far and welcome Aymar to build our business in its next phase of growth."
Gianfranco Lanci added: "When I joined Lenovo in 2012, I set out an ambition for the company to become a top 3 PC player in EMEA by 2013 - we outperformed that significantly by becoming #2 in EMEA last year with 15.3% market share. The next phase of our growth is about anticipating the next set of opportunities for our company and ensuring we have the right organisation in place to help us be faster; more focused, and more efficient in providing innovative products and services to an incredibly diverse market. I am confident that Aymar will lead our EMEA business into the next phase of growth that will take us beyond PCs and tablets and more widely accelerate the server and smartphone opportunity."
De Lencquesaing continued: "Whilst Gianfranco has built Lenovo to be the second largest PC company in EMEA, there are still immense opportunities to grow further. My ambition is of course that we build on that foundation and become the #1 PC company in EMEA but not only that. Our focus is beyond PCs to the PC+ and smart connected device landscape - we have established a strong foundation already in smartphones in a number of markets in EMEA and will continue to expand over the coming year. Lenovo is poised for even greater things moving forward."
The new appointments will be effective April 1st 2014.
Further information regarding the wider global business reorganisation is available here.
About Aymar de Lencquesaing
Aymar de Lencquesaing joined Lenovo in late 2013 to lead the company's drive in the mobile space in EMEA. During the last thirty years, Aymar held a variety of management positions in the IT industry. Over the last ten years he was based in Europe where he was Corporate VP and Member of the Executive Committee of Capgemini, Senior VP and President of SHBG at Acer and CEO of Packard Bell. Prior to being in Europe he spent over twenty years in California where he held a variety of management positions in large companies such Softbank, Ziff-Davis, or in technology start-ups.
About Gianfranco Lanci
Gianfranco Lanci joined Lenovo in April 2012 as president of the company's EMEA geography and senior vice president of Lenovo Group. He is responsible for all business across Lenovo's largest geography - which includes 121 countries, 40 offices and 1,800 employees - and is part of Lenovo Group's leadership executive committee.
Lanci started his career in Texas Instruments (TI) in 1981 for the company's calculator and digital watch business. He served in several roles during his 17 year tenure, most notably as country manager for the Printers and Portable Computers Division in Italy and Middle East and Africa and then as president for TI's Productivity Products Division in EMEA.
Following Acer's acquisition of TI's notebook division in 1997, Lanci became managing director of Acer Italy, followed by president of Acer Europe in 2000 and president of EMEA in 2002. As president of Acer EMEA he introduced an innovative channel business model saw Acer become the #1 PC player in EMEA.
In 2005 Lanci was appointed as president of Acer Inc and in 2008 he became CEO (chief executive officer) and president. Under his leadership Acer became the #2 PC company in the world - achieving record profitability for three consecutive years.
About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$34 billion personal technology company - the largest PC maker worldwide and an emerging PC Plus leader - serving customers in more than 160 countries. Dedicated to exceptionally engineered PCs and mobile internet devices, Lenovo's business is built on product innovation, a highly-efficient global supply chain and strong strategic execution. Formed by Lenovo Group's acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the Company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services. Its product lines include legendary Think-branded commercial PCs and Idea-branded consumer PCs, as well as servers, workstations, and a family of mobile internet devices, including tablets and smart phones. Lenovo, a global Fortune 500 company, has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information see www.lenovo.com.
