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by Martha Heller

Reaching Beyond IT Yields GM Role

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Dec 3, 20133 mins
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Hunter Jones promoted from ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã of Cameron International to Business Unit ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã, and other news

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A few months ago, I posted a blog about Hunter Jones, ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã of Cameron International, a $9B oil and gas equipment manufacturer, who had added VP of Enterprise Services to his ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã title. “Sometimes I say that my new role is everything the CEO doesn’t want to do,” said Jones. But more seriously:  Jones’s new functional responsibility included, in addition to IT, product R&D, global supply chain, security, corporate quality and leadership over a major transformation project. His team of 600 had increased to 1400.

A few weeks ago, I learned that Hunter Jones was recently promoted to a new role of Vice President and General Manager of Drilling Systems at Cameron. This is a classic example of what I call “Reach Beyond IT” where a ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã uses the considerable operations skills he develops as ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã and takes on additional functional roles.  Do this long enough, and if all goes well, the ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã, like Jones, winds up with his own P&L.

In more exciting developments, Kim Hammonds joined Deutsche Bank on November 25 as ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã and global co-head of group technology and operations (GTO). Previously, Hammonds was ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã at Boeing and held various roles at Dell and Ford Motor Company.

On that note, Boeing named as ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã and Vice President of IT. Colbert, who was formerly vice president of the Boeing Information Technology Infrastructure organization, replaces Kim Hammonds. Colbert will report to John Tracy, CTO and Senior Vice President of Engineering, Operations & Technology. Colbert joined Boeing in 2009 as a director of the Enterprise Network Services organization

was promoted to Head of IT at BP after the departure of former ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã Dana Deasy last month. Gibbs has been with the energy giant since 2008 and was promoted from his role as ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã and Vice President of Refining and Marketing. Prior to BP, Gibbs was a business unit ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã at ConocoPhillips.

joins US Steel as Vice President and ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã and will have a seat on the company’s executive management team.  Balawajder will report to the CFO, David B. Burritt and succeeds David H. Lohr, who will retire from the company on Nov. 30. Balawajder previously served as Vice President, IT and ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã at UTC Climate, Controls, and Security (CCS), a $ 17 billion division of United Technologies Corporation.

Pearson announced the appointment of Albert Hitchcock as ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã and a new member of the Pearson Executive team. Hitchock joins from Vodafone, where he served as ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã since 2007. The 28-year IT veteran also previously held leadership roles at BAE Systems, Racal Electronics and Nortel Networks.

I ran into a few weeks ago, who tells me that is joining George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, as ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã.  Previously, Smith was the head of IT at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining MIT in 2009, Smith was the president of Life Companies at the Hanover Insurance Group.

Bloomberg appointed as ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã. Oncel has been with Bloomberg since 1998, starting out as a Multimedia Software Developer, then to Director of Product Development and then to Managing Editor of  Product Development & News Technology.

That’s it for this week!  Best of luck to all of these new ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãs.

Martha