Fidelma Russo is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hybrid Cloud business unit and the company's Chief Technology Officer. Her team is tasked with solving some of IT's biggest challenges, including transforming business through the power of data, modernizing AI infrastructure with a true cloud experience, and dramatically simplifying operations across hybrid cloud estates.
Fidelma's organization is responsible for the strategic direction, development, and execution of HPE Hybrid Cloud products and services, including HPE GreenLake cloud and HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions, HPE Storage, private cloud, and SaaS solutions. As CTO, Fidelma accelerates the creation of HPE's innovation pipeline through the capabilities and services of the Office of the CTO, including Hewlett Packard Labs.
In 2021, Fidelma joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise as CTO, where she led the creation, development, and delivery of HPE GreenLake cloud, a central offering for all HPE's edge-to-cloud solutions and cloud services.
Fidelma is based at HPE headquarters in Houston and has more than 30 years of technology leadership spanning machine learning and analytics, global IT business services, cloud services, servers, storage, networking, backup, and infrastructure.
Prior to joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Fidelma was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Services business unit at VMware. She has held notable senior leadership positions including Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Iron Mountain, Senior Vice President and General Manager at EMC, Vice President of Adaptive Infrastructure at Hewlett-Packard, and Senior Vice President of Network, Storage, and Software at Sun Microsystems.
Fidelma serves on the Board of Directors for Equinix and HP International Bank. She was recognized in CRN's Top 100 Executive awards and Top 25 IT Innovators in 2023 and 2024.
Fidelma has a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from University College Cork, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Boston University, and completed the Internet of Things Executive Education program at MIT's Sloan School of Management.