Amelio hired a Chinese coach to give him private lessons in his Singapore home.
Amelio treats the story, for the most part, as a conventional docudrama with an anti-capital-punishment message.
Smith, Amelio's handpicked head of supply chain, and Kenneth DiPietro, the hr chief, remain.
D'Amelio became Lucent's chief financial officer in 2001, when Lucent shares had already fallen 70%.
Lenovo also appointed William Amelio, a veteran of Dell, a rival PC-maker, as its new boss.
Amelio's exit raises the question of whether Lenovo will now turn inward, focusing less on new markets.
First, though, Jobs had to replace Apple Chief Executive Gil Amelio and rebuild Apple's lineup of computers.
That left Amelio--whose three-year contract was, coincidentally, up at the end of last year--holding the short straw.
In an e-mail message Amelio said he planned to take time off and declined to comment on his departure.
Wozniak teamed up with former Apple CEO Gil Amelio and former Apple Senior Executive Ellen Hancock to found Acquicor.
He remembers that during Lucent's IPO, D'Amelio digested binders full of complex information and convinced investors of the company's prospects.
Businesswise, Amelio and Yang still have their work cut out for them.
By early 2009, Lenovo's CEO Bill Amelio was replaced by Yang Yuanqing.
Will Apple retire that one as well, or will Jobs allow one product to carry the legacy of the Sculley, Spindler and Amelio?
On Feb. 5 Lenovo made the surprise announcement that Amelio was being shown the door and replaced by Yang Yuanqing, who had been Lenovo's chairman.
Already he has slashed 10, 000 jobs and hired as chief financial officer Frank D'Amelio, who was at Lucent when it cut 75% of its workforce.
D'Amelio's appointment is a promising step, but the world's biggest drug maker still faces a great many challenges and has some big jobs to fill.
Yang had originally wanted a separate consumer business division to lead the charge, according to Grabe, but Amelio argued that that might undermine the geographic heads.
Gil Amelio, who cut costs and ground his way to profitability at National Semiconductor (nyse: NSM - news - people ), stumbled too.
Pfizer has chosen Frank A. D'Amelio, an executive credited with slashing jobs and executing a turnaround at embattled telecom-equipment maker Lucent, as its new chief financial officer.
By July, Amelio was out and Jobs was back at the helm to lead what has turned out to be one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in history.
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That is the approach he took in finding his new chief financial officer, Frank D'Amelio, who had experience making very difficult decisions about job cuts at Lucent Technologies.
Now Amelio is out of a job, a victim of the global economic downturn and strategic missteps that left Lenovo too reliant on China for most of its profits.
American William Amelio was hired with much fanfare in late 2005 to take charge of Chinese computer giant Lenovo--and integrate that company's acquisition of ibm's mammoth but moneylosing PC business.
And a former colleague's memories of D'Amelio reveal that he may also represent a more investor-friendly style at Pfizer, a contrast with the imperious style of former Chief Executive Henry McKinnell.
Later, as Lucent's business imploded, D'Amelio became a key sounding board for other executives at the company, a pragmatic voice for investors about what management did and didn't know about the business environment.
He insisted that everyone call him Dr. Amelio.
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Amelio and Yang had worked hand-in-hand for three years to transform Lenovo from a parochial Chinese company into a global tech player and one that spent tens of millions of dollars sponsoring the Beijing Olympics.
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