H-P's Enterprise Chief Moves On

As Hewlett-Packard Inc. inches toward its November breakup, one of the people leading the charge is on his way out.

Bill Veghte, the head of H-P's business-centric Enterprise Group is leaving the company to "pursue a new opportunity," H-P said in a statement. Mr. Veghte couldn't be reached for comment.

A former Microsoft Corp. executive who played a key role in the Windows 7 launch, Mr. Veghte was hired by Mark Hurd in 2010 to build H-P's software business. Chief Executive Meg Whitman, just months after taking the helm at H-P in September, 2011, elevated him to the role of chief operating officer before putting him in charge of the Enterprise Group and ultimately the company's breakup.

H-P expects to file Securities and Exchange Commission documents later this week detailing its division into two companies. The split will create two $57 billion offshoots—the printer-and-PC seller HP Inc. and the corporate-technology behemoth Hewlett Packard Enterprise— and is expected to be completed by Nov. 1.

Mr. Veghte is the second H-P executive to have departed in advance of the breakup. In March, David Donatelli, one of the company's top hardware executives, jumped ship for Oracle Corp.

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