Jan. 25, 2012 – Jim Merritt is to head Hewlett Packard’s enterprise and networking business in this region. The company has announced his appointment as senior vice president and general manager of Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking (ESSN) Sales in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Merritt has held a number of global and regional senior management posts, most recently at Dell, where he was president of Global Sales with responsibilities for both direct and indirect sales to corporate customers. 
He spent the last 13 years with Dell in global and regional sales roles, including four years within APJ.