Neil MacDonald

EVP & GM, HPE Server Business

Neil MacDonald is Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Server segment, which includes HPE’s Compute, High Performance Computing (HPC) & Artificial Intelligence (AI) business units.

HPE’s multi-billion dollar, market-leading Compute business helps customers remove complexity, drive speed and agility, and accelerate new outcomes with a broad range of compute engineered for the hybrid world. The Compute portfolio includes innovative solutions for our industry-leading HPE ProLiant Compute (ML, DL and XD series), Synergy, Superdome Flex and Compute Scale-up Servers, Edgeline, Compute Ops Management, OneView, and Services. Neil also oversees the OEM segment across HPE.

The HPC & AI team delivers integrated systems comprised of software, hardware, and networking designed to enable high-performance computing, AI, data analytics, and transaction processing workloads for government and commercial customers globally. The HPC & AI portfolio includes the HPE Cray Supercomputing EX systems and HPE Cray XD servers, which are purpose-built to support exascale systems and systems dedicated to large-scale AI training and inference. The HPE Nonstop portfolio provides industry leading, high-availability, fault-tolerant solutions that power large-scale, mission-critical applications such as payment transactions and discrete manufacturing operations.

During his 29 years at Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) and HPE, Neil has brought his passion for customers and high-quality engineering to leading product organizations on four continents, developing servers, storage, networking, data center orchestration, supercomputing, and consumer electronics products by innovating in ASICs, hardware, firmware, software, and services.

Neil previously served as the General Manager of HPE’s Compute Solutions organization where he led the development and introduction of Synergy, the world’s first composable infrastructure platform, and ramped the business to more than $1B. He has also held a variety of R&D, product management, supply chain, strategy, and M&A integration roles.

Prior to joining HP, Neil held a Commercial Manager role at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, bringing the transformational benefits of massive parallel supercomputing to industrial and commercial customers.

In 2023, Neil was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum. He previously served on the board of Pensando Systems, which was acquired by AMD in May 2022 for $1.9B. Neil is also NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) Certified and has completed the Competent Boards’ Climate Designation program.

Neil holds a B.Sc. degree with Honors in Artificial Intelligence with Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, as well as an MBA from San Jose State University.