In this role, Wolfgang Egger is responsible for ensuring strong business growth and excellence of operations across the region, leveraging HPE’s globally renowned expertise to meet the aspirations of the UAE under its Vision 2021 strategy. As part of his remit, Egger drives the company’s valued partnerships with federal and local government bodies and will launch HPE’s first Digital Life Garage in the UAE.
This centre aims to accelerate the development of the UAE’s innovation ecosystem by creating a hotbed for scientific research and home-grown high-tech solutions. It will serve as an accelerator for local businesses and will support the UAE’s Smart Nation initiative to further the country’s technology ambitions on the world stage. Egger is also personally committed to support Emiratisation.
He was previously the vice president channels and Alliances for central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa at HPE. In this capacity, he successfully drove revenue and market growth in collaboration with over 3,000 certified partners and strategic alliances, delivering server, storage, networking and services solutions.
Prior to this, he led the Services Business for HPE in Central & Eastern Europe, delivering IT solutions for clients in 27 countries, ranging from SMBs to Large Enterprise Customers.
He joined HPE Austria in 1997 as a Field System Engineer where he rose to a variety of leadership positions focused on direct customer and partner business interactions. Egger is a strong believer in leading by example, combining deep technical expertise with strategic vision to achieve business growth. An electrical engineer by training, he holds a degree from the Higher School for Electrical Engineering in Salzburg.
As for HPE’s most recent developments, the company in May this year agreed to buy US supercomputer maker Cray Inc. in a deal valued at about $1.4bn as the firm works to become more competitive in high-end computing, Bloomberg reported. The deal will help HP Enterprise strengthen its position against International Business Machines Corp. It could also become its biggest since it started trading in 2015, surpassing its acquisition of Nimble Storage Inc for about $1bn more than two years ago, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
HP Enterprise has mostly been paring down since it was created from the breakup of Hewlett-Packard Co. In 2017, it completed a spinoff and merger of its enterprise services business with Computer Sciences Corp. It’s also separated some software assets in an $8.8bn deal with UK-based Micro Focus International Plc.
Still, the company has also committed $4bn through 2022 to initiatives to develop artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and distributed computing offerings.
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