Kirk Skaugen is the Executive Vice President of Lenovo and President of Lenovo's Infrastructure Solutions Group, assuming the role in November 2016.  He is a member of Lenovo’s Executive Committee. In this capacity, Skaugen leads Lenovo’s end-to-end data center, edge and smarter infrastructure businesses, including Hyperscale & Cloud, High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence, Software Defined Infrastructure, Edge Computing/IOT, Telecommunications, Enterprise, Government, and Small/Medium Business (Lenovo’s Server, Storage, Software and Services business units). He has responsibility over the P&L, strategic planning, architecture, hardware and software engineering, supply chain and procurement, quality, customer service, sales, and marketing across Lenovo Infrastructure Solution Group’s five geographies with business in 180 markets.

Under Skaugen’s leadership, Lenovo ranks #1 in performance, quality, and reliability for x86 servers. Lenovo has been recognized by ITIC in a survey of thousands of global corporations as the most reliable x86 server for the ninth consecutive year.  Since 2018, Lenovo has become the #1 provider of global supercomputers. Committed to solving humanity’s greatest challenges, more than 1 in 3 of the top 500 global supercomputers run Lenovo, including supporting 17 of the top 25 global research universities.

Prior to joining Lenovo, Skaugen spent 24 years at Intel, a tenure that included leadership of both the company’s Client Computing Group and Data Center Group as Senior Vice President. As head of Client Computing, Skaugen led Intel’s largest business group with revenue of over $32 billion for the PC, tablet, and phone market segments. As leader of the Data Center Group, he grew the business from $6 billion to over $10 billion in three years while expanding Intel from a server-only focus to an end-to-end data center provider. Based in Singapore, Skaugen served as General Manager of Intel’s Asia Pacific Solutions Group, responsible for software development, system integrator, and CIO relationships across the Asia region.

Skaugen holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Purdue University and was recognized as “Electrical Engineer Alumnus of the Year” in 2014.  He serves on the Purdue Business School Dean’s Board of Advisors.

Laura G. Quatela is Senior Vice President and Chief Legal & Corporate Responsibility Officer. She is a member of Lenovo’sExecutive Committee. The Financial Times named her among the top 20 GCs in the World in June 2021. In November 2021, she was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame as a joint winner of IAM’s Inaugural Q. Todd Dickinson Award. She is also a member of World 50. 

Quatela co-founded Quatela Lynch LLC, a consulting practice helping clients leverage IP assets and organizations, and make informed technology investment decisions.

From April 2013 to June 2019, Quatela served on the Board of Directors of Technicolor SA, a French company traded on the NYSE Euronext Paris exchange and a worldwide technology leader in the media and entertainment sectors. At various points in her tenure, she chaired the Strategy and Remunerations Committees, and sat on the Technology and Nominations & Governance Committees.

Before leaving Eastman Kodak in February 2014, Quatela was President of the company. She also served as Co-Chief Operating Officer in 2012. Additionally, Quatela led Kodak’s $1.4 billion consumer film, photographic paper, retail photo kiosk and event imaging businesses. She managed their divestiture to the company’s UK pension plan, which held the single largest claim filed in Kodak’s bankruptcy case. Sale of the iconic consumer businesses resolved this claim and enabled Kodak to emerge from Chapter 11.

Quatela joined Kodak in 1999 and held various positions in the company’s Legal department. She next moved to the CFO’s staff to help restructure Kodak’s finance functions. In 2004 she joined a small team charged with licensing the company’s technology and patents, including Kodak’s foundational digital camera portfolio.  Quatela developed this effort into a business that generated more than $4 billion in revenue.

In 2006 the Board of Directors elected her a corporate Vice President. In 2008 Quatela was appointed Kodak’s first Chief Intellectual Property Officer, a role she retained when she was named General Counsel and elected a Senior Vice President of the company in 2011. In tandem with her corporate duties, Quatela headed Kodak’s OLED business, negotiating the sale of the seminal OLED patent portfolio to LG Electronics and others in 2009.

Prior to joining Kodak, Quatela worked for Clover Capital Management, Inc., SASIB Railway GRS, and Bausch & Lomb. In private law practice, she was a defense litigator specializing in mass tort cases.

Quatela is a member of the Board of the Help Us Give Smiles (HUGS) Foundation, supporting surgical missions to correct congenital ear and facial deformities of children living in the Andean States, Guatemala, Vietnam, and other areas of high incidence. Past advisory board and community work includes the Board of Managers of Provenance Asset Group LLC, and the Board of Trustees of Allendale Columbia School, the Strong National Museum of Play, and the Visiting Nurse Association of Rochester and Monroe County.

Quatela is a graduate of Denison University, B.A., International Politics (1979) and Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D. (1982), where she was inducted into the Society of Benchers. She is conversant in Mandarin.

Liu Jun joined Lenovo in 1993 and has served as Executive Vice President of Lenovo Group and President of Lenovo China since May 2017. Prior to his current role, he held a variety of leadership positions at the company, including General Manager of R&D for the PC business, head of the Desktop PC Business Unit, President of the Consumer IT Business Unit, Chief Operating Officer of Lenovo China, President of the Consumer Business Group, President of the Product Group, Executive Vice President of Lenovo Group, and President of the Mobile Business Group.

In his previous roles, Liu spearheaded Lenovo’s “Dual Model” strategic transformation, helping the firm outperform its rivals to become a global leader in the PC sector. As President of Lenovo’s Consumer Business Group, he successfully expanded the firm’s consumer PC business from China to over 100 countries and regions across the world, transforming Lenovo’s overseas market presence that was once dominated by the enterprise business. Liu also oversaw Lenovo’s smartphone business, helping smartphone shipments rise from 500,000 to 75 million units within four years, which made Lenovo one of the world’s top three smartphone vendors. Under his leadership, Lenovo successfully acquired and integrated Motorola Mobility in a deal that beat financial targets. Liu returned to Lenovo in 2017 and has since been responsible for Lenovo’s overall business in China and the company’s intelligent transformation.

Liu earned a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 1993 before going on to receive an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) degree from Tsinghua in 2004. From 2006 to 2007, he completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School and the Stanford Executive Program (SEP) at Stanford Business School.

Luca Rossi joined Lenovo in 2015 and is currently the Executive Vice President of Lenovo and President of the Intelligent Devices Group (IDG). He oversees Lenovo’s global business in PCs, smartphones, tablets, workstations, software, and solutions in enterprise metaverse, cybersecurity, and smart collaboration. 

Prior to his current role, Luca served as President of Lenovo’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Latin America geographies, leading the PC, smartphone, tablet, and server businesses. 

Before joining Lenovo, he served as President of EMEA for Acer. His career at Acer included roles leading the Packard Bell business, the consumer business, and the entire product business.

Previously, he held a number of roles with ASUS, culminating in General Manager for ASUS Europe.

Fluent in Italian, English, and Portuguese, Rossi started his career as a 19-year-old entrepreneur setting up an Italian systems integrator under the Geo Microsystems brand.