William J. Amelio
Former President and Chief Executive Officer
Lenovo Group Limited
William Amelio is former president and CEO of Lenovo Group Limited. Mr. Amelio joined
Lenovo in 2005. He currently is in an advisory role to the company.
Prior to joining Lenovo, Mr. Amelio served as senior vice president, Asia-Pacific and Japan,
for Dell Inc., with responsibility for strategy and operations across the region. He joined
Dell in 2001, and during his tenure sales more than doubled in the Asia-Pacific and Japan
region, and service levels improved significantly, as measured by third-party customer
satisfaction metrics.
From 2000 until 2001, Mr. Amelio was executive vice president and COO of NCR Corp.’s
retail and financial group, one of its two businesses. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Amelio
was with Honeywell International Inc. and its predecessor, AlliedSignal Inc., where he
was president and CEO of Honeywell’s transportation and power-systems divisions and
head of the turbocharging-systems business at Allied Signal. Under Mr. Amelio, the
turbocharging-systems business doubled in revenues to more than $1 billion, implemented
Six Sigma and SAP, and successfully integrated acquisitions. From 1979 to 1997, Mr. Amelio
was with IBM, where he held a wide range of senior management positions, including
general manager of operations for IBM’s personal computing division.
Mr. Amelio has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in
chemical engineering from Lehigh University.