Frédéric Dussart Senior VP and GM Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking EMEA, HP

Frédéric Dussart has joined HP as senior vice president and general manager for Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking EMEA. In his new role he will be responsible for HP’s growth plan in all product lines with a special focus on the channel and on cloud computing.

Frédéric Dussart joins HP from EMC, where he was serving as senior vice president and regional country manager for the Europe South, Middle-East and Africa region. He started at EMC in 2003 as the Country Manager for France. He developed and executed a high performing growth sales engine in each region/country he was driving.

Frédéric started his career in 1985 at HP in France, where he held various enterprise and commercial positions in Europe. From 1999 to 2002, he was the country manager for Enterprise Business in South Africa and then subsequently in France. From there he transitioned to vice president, Personal Systems Group, France.

Frédéric will be based in Paris.

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He replaces VP Wolfgang Wittmer now in charge of APAC following the departure of Adrian Jones. That's a big loss for EMC as it was also the case when he previously left HP for EMC. Dussart, 52, is recognized as one of the best storage executives in France and then EMEA. What will be his next job? Coming back to EMC as president of EMEA, position actually occupied by Rainer Erlat?

Maybe you don't know that Dussart is a fervent supporter of business between Europe and Mediterranean countries and member of the Institut de prospective et d’étude pour la Méditerranée (Ipemed).

At a time there was a movement of executives going from HP to EMC (Mark Lewis, Howard Elias, Rainer Erlat, Mark Sorenson) and recently slowly in the other side (David Donatelli, Frédéric Dussart). Last August there was a rumor of EMC's CEO himself, Joe Tucci, being on the short list of possible candidates to replace HP's CEO Mak Hurd.