The sales-minded executive Tuesday announced he was dissolving an HP group responsible for sales to small- and medium-sized businesses to give HP's salespeople more direct customer contact, and stressed that HP would work only with partners that made it a point to champion HP products.
"This is the first time in the last 10 years I fear I am speaking to a group that knows more about my product than me, " Thierry Antinori, Lufthansa AG executive vice president of sales and marketing, told the group.