Richard belluzzo biography

Richard Belluzzo Biography


Rich Belluzzo is an American businessman who worked as an executive at Hewlett-Packard SGI and Microsoft before becoming CEO of Quantum Corp and later an Executive Chairman. Rich worked for HP for 23 years with his last role being executive vice president of their computer division. Later he left SGI to head Microsoft's MSN division and became President and Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft for fourteen months but left in 2002 taking the reins at Quantum in September the same year. Much of his career is clouded in controversy and many consider him to be responsible for the demise of SGI. He was a strong advocate at HP to reduce their investments in HP-UX and PA-RISC in favor of Windows NT and Itanium as well as getting SGI to cut their investments in IRIX and MIPS. The effect of these decisions was to destroy two of the leading platforms in Unix computing and greatly increased the opportunity for Intel and Microsoft to get into high-end computing. Rich holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Golden Gate University.


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Richard Belluzzo

American businessman

Richard "Rick" Belluzzo (born November 26, 1953)[1] is an American businessman who worked as an executive at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Silicon Graphics (SGI), Microsoft (MS), Quantum Corp. (QTM), and Viavi Solutions (VIAV). He has served on the board of directors of several technology companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Golden Gate University.[2]

Belluzzo worked for HP for 23 years, with his last role being executive vice president of their computer division. He moved to SGI in January 1998, becoming chairman of the board and CEO, succeeding Edward R. McCracken.[3][4] During his time in the systems business, Belluzzo led both HP and SGI through the transition from proprietary systems to industry standard solutions. These actions were controversial at the time.[5] SGI lost money five out of the six quarters Belluzzo ran the company.[6]

In August 1999, Belluzzo left SGI to head Microsoft's MSN division,[7] and then the whole Consumer bus

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Born in San Francisco in 1953 Richard E. (Rick) Belluzzo holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Belluzzo is an executive Vice-President of Hewlett-Packard Company and heads its Computer Organisation. The organisation comprises computer products (printers, plotters, scanners and personal computers), computer systems (workstations, larger computer systems and consulting) and HP's worldwide customer support operations.

Belluzzo joined HP in 1975 and worked in the accounting department at the Santa Rosa (Calif.) site. In 1978, he was promoted to accounting manager for the Disk Memory Division (DMD) in Boise and then controller for the division in 1980. In 1983, he assumed additional responsibility as controller for the former Information Products Group, and in 1984, he was named marketing manager for DMD. In 1986, he was named marketing manager for the former Peripherals Group. He was named operations manager for the former Boise Printer Operation when it was formed in 1987 and became

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