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Richard Walker
Senior Vice President, Consumer PC Business Unit, Personal Systems
Group
Hewlett-Packard Company
Richard Walker is responsible for the Consumer PC Global Business Unit at HP,
which provides desktop PCs to consumer markets. These products offer customers
flexibility and choice and the latest technology and value. In addition, he is
responsible for HP’s digital entertainment products, such as the HP Media Center
PC and HP Digital Entertainment Center, which are based on Microsoft’s Media
Center Edition software. He also leads HP’s Personal Storage and Calculator
businesses.
Walker first joined HP in 1983 and has held various senior sales and marketing
management roles in Europe, the United States and Asia Pacific. He was a
founding member of the management team that launched the HP Pavilion into the
consumer PC marketplace – a business that achieved market share leadership
among PCs sold through the retail channel within two years. He was also the
worldwide marketing manager for the handheld PC business based in Singapore,
where he helped craft the strategy that lead to the introduction of the HP Jornada
based on the Microsoft Windows® CE operating system. Earlier at HP, he was
responsible for managing the commercial PC and networking businesses for the
Asia Pacific region.
From 1998 to 2003 Walker left HP to work as vice president of marketing for an
optical storage start-up company, TeraStor. He also founded two companies:
TapCast, which delivered services to the youth market via wireless and the Internet,
and Pinpoint-Partners, a consulting firm focused on helping companies succeed in
complex, difficult business environments. Additionally, he served as vice president
and general manager at Pumatech, a leader in software synchronization
technology.
Walker received his bachelor’s degree in business from Sheffield Polytechnic,
Sheffield, England. He also serves on the advisory board for SPRIE (Stanford
Projects on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship) at Stanford University and
on the advisory board for R&D Logic, a San Mateo-based life sciences company.
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