Susan Blocher is vice president of Global Marketing for the HP Servers business unit in the HP Enterprise Group. The HP Servers portfolio includes HP ProLiant, the world’s number one server brand; HP Integrity for mission-critical computing; HP Apollo family of high performance computing; HP Moonshot, the world’s first software defined web server; and HP Cloudline, built for scale for the service provider market. The portfolio powers the web and nearly every aspect of daily life from finance and entertainment to healthcare and education for enterprise and mission critical enterprises to small and business customers and service providers.

As the global leader of the HP Servers Marketing team, Susan is responsible for driving both strategic and tactical marketing activities, including go-to-market strategies, portfolio strategy and positioning, solution announcements and execution results across the unified HP server portfolio. Under Susan’s leadership, the organization will drive value-based business outcomes to customers and partners while positioning HP Servers as the market leading foundation for the New Style of Business.

Previously, Susan served as the Global Vice President of HP Moonshot Product Management, Business Development and Marketing where her focus was to align HP Moonshot to specific applications and use cases, developing client-centric value propositions, and building a robust ecosystem of ISVs and partners.

Susan joined HP in 2014 from IBM where she held a number of global executive positions, including VP of IBM software solutions, storage systems, and converged systems, as well as in regional roles. As a marketing executive at IBM she led multiple software and hardware business units spanning 20 years, with a focus on systems management and storage. Susan also has five years of experience working in regions as the VP of Marketing for Middle East and Africa based in Dubai and VP of Marketing for Emerging Markets based in Shanghai leading IBM hardware marketing for all growth markets, including Asia Pacific, EMEA and Latin America.

In her spare time, Susan enjoys horseback riding, and leisure travel with her family, including her ten year old daughter.