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Gender Male
Prior to his retirement, Duane Zitzner was Executive Vice President of the Personal Systems Group, HP, leading the organization responsible for the development and manufacturing of HP’s business and consumer clients which include desktop and notebook PCs, handheld products, personal storage appliances, as well as workstations.
Previously,
Zitzner served as president of HP’s Computing Systems organization with the responsibility for computer products and enterprise systems. In that role, he helped elevate HP’s enterprise solutions with the introduction of the Superdome high-end server.
Zitzner was appointed an HP Vice President by the HP Board of Directors in 1996 and held that position until his retirement. He is a retired officer of Hewlett-Packard Company.
Zitzner joined HP in 1989 as a manager in the Roseville Networks Division in California. Before joining HP, Zitzner held various management and technical jobs in software and architecture at IBM (International Business Machines). Previous to that he was a programmer at Univac.
Zitzner was born in Viroqua, Wisconsin. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and did graduate studies in computer science at the University of Minnesota. Zitzner serves on the boards of Entone and Firetide, is an advisor to Datacatch, and is a business advisor to the National ICT of Australia.
