HP has appointed Ahmed Mahmoud senior vice president in Global Information Technology at HP, effective immediately.

Mahmoud will lead the IT teams responsible for the company’s hp.com, e-commerce and marketing organisations.

He will report to Randy Mott, executive vice president and chief information officer at HP.

Mahmoud most recently was senior vice president and chief information officer for Advanced Micro Devices. Prior to that, he held a variety of IT management roles at Dell over a 13-year period, including application development for global manufacturing, finance, supply chain, sales, Dell online and data warehousing. Before that he was an Oracle database administrator at Eastman Kodak.