Thibault Dousson, country GM of HP Inc in South Africa, is taking up a new role in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Dousson is set to end his 12-year tenure in the South African organisation at the end of July. Following that, he will look after HP Inc’s retail and online channels across the region, although he will still operate out of the local offices.
It is understood that Dubai-based David Rozzio, who currently heads up the channel business in the region, will take over leadership of the South African operation.
Dousson has led the team at HP Inc, previously the printer and PC divisions of HP, through a number of transitions over the last few years, the latest being the split of HP into two separate companies, HP Inc and HP Enterprise.
He joined HP SA from France in September 2004 as a programme manager. He then held various positions within PSG South Africa including category country manager, corporate enterprise and public sector sales manager and, in 2008, solutions partner organisations country manager where he managed the Preferred Partner Programme across all business units.
In November 2009, he took over leadership of the PSG channel and retail sales team and, in August 2010, took became the GM of HP Personal Solutions Group (PSG) South Africa.
When the PSG group merged with the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), he became GM of the merged operation within HP, recently taking on the role of country GM of HP Inc.