Gianfranco Lanci
President & COO @ Lenovo
Gianfranco Lanci is a startup investor at Lenovo. Gianfranco Lanci is corporate president and chief operating officer (COO) of Lenovo Group.Within his role as corporate president, Gianfranco leads Lenovo’s Intelligent Device Group (IDG), delivering PC, mobile and smart device solutions to customers. As COO, he maintains overall operational responsibility for the geography organizations, globalaccounts, Lenovo’s e-commerce business and the global supply chain. Prior to these, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, leading Lenovo's global PC and Smart Device business (PCSD) as well as Lenovo's EMEA region and the Asia Pacific markets of Australia, Japan and New Zealand. Gianfranco joined Lenovo in April 2012 as president of the company’s EMEA geography and senior vice president of Lenovo Group. He was responsible for all business across Lenovo’s largest geography – which included 121 countries, 50 offices and 3,000 employees. In only 2 years, he grew Lenovo’s business in EMEA from #5 to #2 in the PC market, achieving a 15.3% market share.His career started at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1981 where he served in several roles during his 17-year tenure, most notably as country manager for the Printers and Portable Computers Division in Italy and Middle East and Africa, then as president for TI’s Productivity Products Division in EMEA.Following Acer’s acquisition of TI’s notebook division in 1997, Gianfranco became managing director of Acer Italy, followed by president of EMEA in 2002. In 2005 he was appointed as president of Acer Inc and in 2008 he became CEO (chief executive officer) and president. Under his leadership Acer became the #2 PC company in the world – achieving record profitability for three consecutive years.Gianfranco graduated from the Politecnico of Turin where he earned his degree in civil engineering. Lanci resides in Lugano and is married with three children.
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About Lenovo
Lenovo is one of the world's leading personal technology companies, producing innovative PCs and mobile internet devices. A global Fortune 500 company, Lenovo is the world's largest PC vendor and fourth largest smartphone company.While the Lenovo brand came into existence only in 2004, the company has a much longer history. In 1984,Legend Holdings was formed with 200,000 RMB (US$25,000) in a guard house in China. The company was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988 and would grow to be the largest PC company in China. Legend Holdings changed its name to Lenovo in 2004 and, in 2005, acquired the former Personal Computer Division of IBM, the company that invented the PC industry in 1981.Today, Lenovo is a US$39billion personal technology company with more than 54,000 employees (including joint ventures) in more than 60 countries serving customers in more than 160 countries. Lenovo is a global company that is incorporated and headquartered in Hong Kong, with operational centers located strategically around the world , with the largest in Beijing and Morrisville, NC. These operational centers drive Lenovo’s global and local business approach.Lenovo has grown faster than the market for more than four years because our exceptionally engineered products are meant for those who do. Our customers use innovation to bring progress to the world, and we design and build our products with this in mind, taking inspiration from the drive and imagination of the people who make things happen. Our technology helps those who do, do better.Whether a PC, smartphone, tablet, smart TV, server, workstation or storage, Lenovo makes the products that customers need for what we call the "PC+ world." Lenovo is creating real differentiation from the competition thanks to its vertically integrated end-to-end business model. This model is unique among major PC makers and is a significant source of competitive advantage, helping us to bring more innovation to market, more efficiently, and aggressively attack the PC+ opportunity.And as Lenovo expands globally, we are establishing even deeper roots in each major market, investing not only in sales and distribution, but also in local domestic manufacturing, R&D and other high-value functions. This global reach with local excellence is enabling us to build a new kind of company - a "global-local" company - and positions us to more deeply implement our protect and attack strategy and build the foundation for long-term success.
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Andrew Flanagan
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Bhavya Mishra
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Gianfranco Lanci
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Gwen Coble
Executive Director
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Kevin Beck
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