Todd Bradley, HP Exec and former PalmOne CEO, named top tech exec 2
Fortune has put together another list of names they want to recognize for excellence, and this time it was the smartest people in the technology industry. Executive Vice President of HP’s Personal Systems Group, and Palm chief Jon Rubinstein’s immediate supervisor, Todd Bradley grabbed the title of Smartest Executive on Fortune’s list (smartest exec is not to be confused with smartest CEO, a title unsurprisingly claimed by Apple chief Steve Jobs).
Bradley is a familiar name to Palm fans, as he was CEO of PalmOne (the hardware arm of Palm) from 2001 to 2005 during the transition to the smartphone, at which point he was recruited by Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd to head up the Personal Systems Group of HP. Since taking charge of the Personal Systems Group, Bradley has taken the desktops, laptops, and mobile devices arm of HP to new heights. They’ve toppled Dell as the world’s largest and jumped to $42 billion in annual revenue with a 300% increase in profit.
Reading the tea leaves, Bradley sees the future of HP and the Personal Systems Group in the mobile ecosystem. As such, it’s ironic and humorous that as the head of the Personal Systems Group, Bradley will once again be in charge of newly-acquired subsidiary Palm, Inc.
Bradley finds himself on the list with such tech luminaries as the aforementioned Steve Jobs, Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple designed Jonathan Ive, analyst Mike Arrington, and film-maker James Cameron (for his pioneering 3D cinema work).
Source: Fortune, Via: webOSroundup
2 Comments
When the news first came out that Palm was getting acquired by HP, I tentatively felt good about it, even without having followed HP much as a company. I just liked their capital and apparent excitement over webOS.
Now that I'm paying more attention to HP . . . well, I have yet to hear anything that makes me LESS enthusiastic about this business deal. I still eagerly await the first hardware offering from our new HP overlords. :-D
Woah woah wooooah! Was this THE confidential nomination you weren't suppose to have read in the PalmCast Dieter?! If so, wow..thats pretty amazing to have even been considered! Congrats none the less!