Richard Belluzzo Biography

Rich Belluzzo is an American businessman who worked as an executive at Hewlett-Packard SGI and Microsoft before becoming CEO of Quantum Corp and later an Executive Chairman. Rich worked for HP for 23 years with his last role being executive vice president of their computer division. Later he left SGI to head Microsoft's MSN division and became President and Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft for fourteen months but left in 2002 taking the reins at Quantum in September the same year. Much of his career is clouded in controversy and many consider him to be responsible for the demise of SGI. He was a strong advocate at HP to reduce their investments in HP-UX and PA-RISC in favor of Windows NT and Itanium as well as getting SGI to cut their investments in IRIX and MIPS. The effect of these decisions was to destroy two of the leading platforms in Unix computing and greatly increased the opportunity for Intel and Microsoft to get into high-end computing. Rich holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Golden Gate University.

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