Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced an expanded leadership role effective February 1, 2024 for Neil MacDonald, who has been appointed to lead the company?s HPC & AI business segment in addition to leading its Compute business. MacDonald will continue to report to president and chief executive officer, Antonio Neri and each business segment will continue to report its financial results independently. In his new role as the executive vice president and general manager of both Compute and HPC & AI, MacDonald will lead the team in accelerating HPE?s AI strategy by scaling cloud and software solutions with strong integration of HPE GreenLake.

Additionally, the company announced that Hewlett Packard Labs will now move to reporting to Fidelma Russo, HPE?s Chief Technology Officer. Notably, under MacDonald?s leadership, the Compute business recently expanded its strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to enhance HPE?s Compute portfolio and build a turnkey enterprise computing solution for GenAI to target a growing market. Prior to joining its predecessor, Hewlett-Packard Company, MacDonald was Commercial Manager at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre where he helped bring the transformational benefits of massively parallel supercomputing to industrial and commercial customers.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence with Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, as well as an MBA from San Jose State University.