{"id":7807,"date":"2015-02-12T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=7807"},"modified":"2015-02-12T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:09:29","slug":"lenovo-names-roderick-lappin-president-apac-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/02\/12\/lenovo-names-roderick-lappin-president-apac-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo names Roderick Lappin as president for APAC region"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lenovo, a global player\u00a0in PCs and mobile Internet devices, has\u00a0announced the appointment of Roderick Lappin as president, Lenovo\u2019s Asia-Pacific region, effective April 1, 2015, reuniting its Asia-Pacific Emerging Markets (APEM) and Asia-Pacific Mature Markets (APMM) businesses into a single unit.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Lenovo is in the process of transforming its business to maintain its successful trajectory as the #1 PC vendor in the world. As a result, the company has decided to bring together the APEM and APMM regions, promoting Lappin, and also promoting Ken Wong, to vice president of Strategy and Planning.<\/p>\n

Lappin led the company to become the PC sales leader in Japan and facilitated\u00a0the launch of the consumer business in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). Currently based in Japan, he\u00a0intends to stay in Tokyo where he will run the Asia-Pacific business and will remain the president of NEC Lenovo Japan Group. He will continue to lead the Japan and ANZ business and will report to Gianfranco Lanci, Lenovo\u2019s chief operating officer and executive senior vice president.<\/p>\n

\u201cRod has a wealth of experience in creating successful businesses in mature and emerging markets, making him the best person to head up the new Asia-Pacific business for Lenovo,\u201d said Lanci. \u201cWith Rod at the helm, I am confident the business across Asia-Pacific will continue to thrive and will experience a whole new level of success, just like NEC Lenovo Japan Group in Japan over the last three years under his strong leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the consolidated Asia-Pacific business, Lenovo will have the scale and efficiency to operate more effectively in this highly-competitive and dynamic market. Lenovo\u2019s recent launch of smartphones and other consumer devices in the region shows the company is poised to make Asia-Pacific a growth engine in the enterprise and consumer technology market.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsia-Pacific presents Lenovo with a swathe of opportunities and is critical for our continued success as the global leader in PCs, and I\u2019m excited to be taking over a new amalgamated team brimming with talented people, many of whom I have worked with personally,\u201d Lappin said. \u201cI have set my sights to not only continue Lenovo\u2019s momentum in the PC market, but to elevate our positions in other key categories including mobile and other consumer computing devices across Asia-Pacific. I know for certain that together, with my new team, we can make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lappin has been with Lenovo for the past eight years and has been based in Japan since 2008. Originally from Australia, he holds a degree from Macquarie University\u2019s Graduate School of Business.<\/p>\n

Lappin is GM\u00a0of Asia Pacific Mature Market (APMM \u2013 comprising of Japan, Australia and New Zealand) and VP of Lenovo Group. \u00a0He\u00a0joined Lenovo Singapore in February 2007 as VP of Relationship Business for the Asia Pacific Region that included Japan.\u00a0 Since his appointment as president of Lenovo Japan on October 1, 2008, he\u00a0led the Japan business. Adding to his role as president of Lenovo Japan, he\u00a0assumed the role of president of NEC Lenovo Japan Group, a joint venture with NEC Corp, where its market share climbed 29.1%.<\/p>\n

Lappin\u2019s role expanded to include ANZ when the company divided the Asia Pacific region into emerging and mature markets in April 2014. In ANZ, he\u00a0oversaw the recent successful launch of the region\u2019s consumer retail business, achieving a consumer notebook PC market share from 0% to 8.9% in just three months.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lenovo, a global player in PCs and mobile Internet devices, has announced the appointment of Roderick Lappin as president, Lenovo\u2019s Asia-Pacific region, effective April 1, 2015, reuniting its Asia-Pacific Emerging Markets (APEM) and Asia-Pacific Mature Markets (APMM) businesses into a single unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1779],"tags":[100,312,2560,1363,2559],"class_list":["post-7807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-headlines-2","tag-appointment","tag-lenovo","tag-nec-lenovo-japan-group","tag-promotion","tag-roderick-lappin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}