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Richard Walker is responsible for a global business unit that provides desktop PCs, personal storage products, calculators and plasma TVs to consumer markets. This portfolio of products incorporate the latest innovations in technology packaged to deliver value at a broad range of price points to meet consumer needs. Immediately prior to his current position, Richard was VP of the Emerging Countries Group responsible for developing long term strategic plans for HP's targeted list of emerging countries, with an initial focus on Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). Richard joined HP in 1983 and has held various senior sales and marketing management roles in Europe, US and Asia Pacific. He was a founding member of the team that launched the HP Pavilion into the consumer PC marketplace - a business that achieved market share leadership among PCs sold through the retail channel within two years. He was also the worldwide marketing manager for the handheld PC business based in Singapore, where he helped craft the strategy that lead to the introduction of the HP Jornada based on Microsoft Windows CE operating system. Earlier at HP, he was responsible for managing the commercial PC and networking businesses for the Asia-Pacific region. From 1998-2003, Richard left HP and was VP of Marketing for TeraStor, an optical storage start-up company. He also founded TapCast which delivered services to the youth market via wireless and the internet. Additionally, he served as VP and GM at Pumatech, a leader in software synchronization. Richard received his bachelor�s degree in business with honors from Sheffield Polytechnic, now Sheffield and Hallam University, Sheffield, England. He also serves on the Advisory Board for SPRIE (Stanford Projects on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship) at Stanford University and on the Advisory Board for R&D Logic, a San Mateo based life sciences company. | 