Corporate Postings
CHC Helicopter, the world’s largest helicopter services company, is Amelio’s second posting as a corporate leader. Between 2005 and 2009 he held the top position with Lenovo Group Ltd., manufacturers of personal computers, laptops, servers and other computer hardware. As Lenovo’s president and CEO, he oversaw the integration of the IBM PC Division, which the company purchased in 2005 for $1.75 billion. Lenovo, with 30,000 employees, experienced an annual revenue growth increase from $13 billion to $15 billion by 2008 under his leadership. During that period the company grew its brand internationally and, for seven successive quarters, had sales profits greater than the market. Amelio guided the company through business transformations that included: consolidating sales, marketing, R&D, manufacturing and supply chain; building a senior management team of both Western and Asian executives; and deploying state-of-the-art human resources concepts like world sourcing, organizational human resources planning, culture and trust work.
From 2001 to 2005, Amelio was Dell Inc.’s Senior Vice-President Asia-Pacific and Japan, overseeing 8,000 employees and operations in the region. Despite a worldwide decline in the PC market, Dell saw sales for the Asia-Pacific/Japan region more than double from $2.6 billion to $5.5 billion while the company’s overall performance in areas such as delivery, quality, customer satisfaction and cost reached new benchmarks.
Between 2000 and 2001, Amelio was Executive President and Chief Operating Officer of NCR Corporation’s Retail Solutions, Financial Solutions, Worldwide Customer Service and Systemedia businesses, responsible for $5 billion in revenue and 27,000 employees worldwide. He arrived at NCR after a stint with Honeywell International Inc. (formerly AlliedSignal). Between 1999 and 2000 he was the company’s President and CEO in charge of Transportation and Power Systems. Amelio, who started with the firm in 1997, was initially responsible for Turbocharging Systems and reestablished AlliedSystems as the industry leader in the technology.
Amelio began his career with IBM Corporation in 1979 and worked his way up to General Manager Worldwide Operations, Distribution and Reengineering of the Personal Computer Division before leaving for AlliedSignal in 1997.
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