Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Neil MacDonald leads HPE’s Compute business, helping customers remove complexity, drive speed and agility, and unlock their fullest potential to accelerate new outcomes with HPE’s software-defined enterprise servers and solutions. The Compute business portfolio includes innovative solutions for our industry-leading ProLiant Servers (Rack and Tower), Synergy, Blades, OneView, and Cloudline Products. Neil also leads our OEM business across HPE
During his 25 years at Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Neil has combined his passions for customers and high-quality engineering to leading product organizations on four continents, developing servers, storage, networking, data center orchestration, supercomputing, and consumer electronics products by innovating in ASICs, hardware, firmware, software, and services.
Most recently, he served as General Manager of the Compute Solutions business unit, which included the mission-critical NonStop and Superdome server families, and Edgeline. Previously, Neil led the development and introduction of Synergy, the world’s first composable infrastructure platform, and ramped the business to over $1B. He also served as VP of Strategy for HPE’s multi-billion dollar storage business and held a variety of R&D, product management, supply chain, and M&A integration roles in HP’s server, storage, networking, and consumer electronics businesses.
Prior to joining HP, Neil was Commercial Manager at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, bringing the transformational benefits of massively parallel supercomputing to industrial and commercial customers.
Neil earned a B.Sc. with Honors in Artificial Intelligence with Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh. He holds an MBA from San Jose State University.
Neil is also a rugby referee and referee coach and serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an enterprise information technology company headquartered in Houston, Texas. HPE was formed in 2015 as the result of Hewlett-Packard’s split. HPE focuses on servers, storage, the cloud, networking, software, finance, and other enterprise services. Hewlett Packard Enterprise serves customers ranging from small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to global enterprises to government entities. HPE’s solutions allow their customers to to capture, analyze, and act on data insights, enabling more efficient operations, better customer and employee experiences, and new business models. HPE operates six business segments: Compute, HPC & AI, Storage, Intelligent Edge, Financial Services ("FS"), and Corporate Investments and Other. Compute is HPE’s server segment, which provides infrastructure for traditional and cloud-native applications, as well as a flexible consumption-based Compute as-a-service through HPE GreenLake. HPC & AI provides hardware and software solutions across multiple categories, including High Performance Compute ("HPC"), Data Solutions, and Edge Compute on the hardware side, and HPE Superdome Flex, HPE Nonstop and HPE Integrity as their software solutions. The HPC & AI segment allows HPE customers to execute data-intensive and high performance computing, access their data, and extract actionable insights. HPE Storage is a cloud data and storage as-a-service solution which simplifies IT for customers. HPE Storage allows customers to easily access their data in the cloud while protecting it from ransomware and cyber threats. The Intelligent Edge business is comprised of a portfolio of secure edge-to-cloud solutions operating under the Aruba brand. The Intelligent Edge is the connection point from the physical to the digital world for people, devices, and the general internet-of-things ("IoT"). Financial Services ("FS") helps customers transition to and use HPE services by providing them with flexible solutions for leasing, IT consumption, technology deployment, and financing. Finally, HPE’s Corporate Investments and Other segment, which includes the Advisory and Professional Services ("A & PS") business, offers consultative-led services such as partner technology expertise, implementation services, and includes Hewlett Packard Labs, HPE’s research and development arm.