Feb 03, 2004

CTO's of the Year Awarded by InfoWorld Magazine

Wasatch Venture Fund Advisor, Shane Robison, Honored as one of 25 Best for 2004

Last April, Shane V. Robison gathered 500 of the brightest engineers from every division of Hewlett-Packard for the first time - a savvy move of technological cross-pollination.  Engineers competed for invitations; 1,500 submitted papers online the first day, crashing the server. 

These meetings - as well as those of a customer advisory board he formed after the merger with Compaq - help Robison in his strategic planning  for HP.  He spent 2003 putting into place the unique concept of formulating different business models for different products, depending on where they are in their maturity cycles.  "We have to shepherd new businesses as they grow from their embryonic phase," he says.  "My role is to make sure they get the care and feeding they need so we can integrate them into the larger business later."