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William J. Amelio is president and CEO of CHC Helicopter

CHC Helicopter

CHC Helicopter is one of the world’s largest helicopter services company specializing in: Transportation to offshore oil and gas platforms; Civilian search and rescue services; Helicopter maintenance repair and overhaul...

, headquartered in Vancouver

Vancouver

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, Canada

Canada

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. Amelio took over leadership of the international helicopter services company in August 2010 following a career spanning more than three decades in technology industries.

Corporate postings

CHC Helicopter, the world’s largest helicopter services company, is Amelio’s second posting as a corporate leader. Between 2005 and 2009 he held the top position with Lenovo Group

Lenovo Group

Lenovo Group Limited is a Chinese multinational personal technology company that develops, manufactures and markets desktop and notebook computers, workstations, servers, storage drives, IT management software, and other related products and services. Lenovo was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988...

Ltd., manufacturers of personal computers, laptops, servers and other computer hardware. As Lenovo’s president and CEO, he oversaw the integration of the IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

PC Division, which the company purchased in 2005 for $1.75 billion.
Lenovo, with 30,000 employees, experienced an annual revenue growth increase from $13 billion to $15 billion by 2008 under his leadership. During that period the company grew its brand internationally and, for seven successive quarters, had sales profits greater than the market.
Amelio guided the company through business transformations that included: consolidating sales, marketing, R&D, manufacturing and supply chain; building a senior management team of both Western and Asian executives; and deploying state-of-the-art human resources concepts like world sourcing, organizational human resources planning, culture and trust work.

From 2001 to 2005, Amelio was Dell

Dell

Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...

Inc.’s Senior Vice-President Asia-Pacific

Asia-Pacific

Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean...

and Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, overseeing 8,000 employees and operations in the region. Despite a worldwide decline in the PC market, Dell saw sales for the Asia-Pacific/Japan region more than double from $2.6 billion to $5.5 billion while the company’s overall performance in areas such as delivery, quality, customer satisfaction and cost reached new benchmarks.

Between 2000 and 2001, Amelio was Executive President and Chief Operating Officer of NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation is an American technology company specializing in kiosk products for the retail, financial, travel, healthcare, food service, entertainment, gaming and public sector industries. Its main products are self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, automated teller machines, check...

’s Retail Solutions, Financial Solutions, Worldwide Customer Service and Systemedia businesses, responsible for $5 billion in revenue and 27,000 employees worldwide.
He arrived at NCR after a stint with Honeywell International Inc. (formerly AlliedSignal

AlliedSignal

AlliedSignal was an aerospace, automotive and engineering company that acquired and merged with Honeywell for $15 billion in 1999, after which the new group adopted the Honeywell name.AlliedSignal was created through a 1985 merger of Allied Corp...

). Between 1999 and 2000 he was the company’s President and CEO in charge of Transportation and Power Systems. Amelio, who started with the firm in 1997, was initially responsible for Turbocharging Systems and reestablished AlliedSystems as the industry leader in the technology.

Amelio began his career with IBM Corporation in 1979 and worked his way up to General Manager Worldwide Operations, Distribution and Reengineering of the Personal Computer Division before leaving for AlliedSignal in 1997.

Board Memberships

Thin Identity (privately-held virtual desktop infrastructure company focused on health care), 2009, non-executive director; MyTurf (privately-held wireless advertising agency), 2009, non-executive director

Education

Amelio holds a master’s degree in Management from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, where he was a Sloan Fellow. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering

Chemical engineering

Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...

from Lehigh University

Lehigh University

Lehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...

Philanthropy

Amelio and his wife Jamie , through the Amelio Foundation, founded Caring for Cambodia http://www.caringforcambodia.org in 2003, a non-profit organization which educates Cambodia children by building schools, training teachers and providing for basic needs. Milestones achieved by 2011 included supporting 5,300 students, training 100 teachers, managing and supporting six schools and stocking four libraries with books and resources.
He also adopted two children from Cambodia.

Corporate postings

Board Memberships

Education

Philanthropy

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