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O'Neill Out as Siemens Enterprise CEO (Updated)O'Neill Out as Siemens Enterprise CEO (Updated)

O'Neill's replacement is company chairman Mark Stone, who had served as interim CEO before O'Neill was hired.

Eric Krapf

June 5, 2009

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O'Neill's replacement is company chairman Mark Stone, who had served as interim CEO before O'Neill was hired.

A Siemens Enterprise spokesperson has confirmed that James O'Neill has left as CEO of Siemens Enterprise. O'Neill's replacement is company chairman Mark Stone, who had served as interim CEO before O'Neill was hired.We're waiting for Siemens' statement on O'Neill's departure. More information as we get it.

UPDATE: I just spoke with another Siemens spokesperson who couldn't give any details about the reason for the change. Given that Mark Stone is a Gores Group exec, I asked if his position as Siemens CEO now would be on an interim basis while a search was conducted for a new CEO. The response from the Siemens spokesperson was that "Mark Stone is the CEO for the foreseeable future."O'Neill's replacement is company chairman Mark Stone, who had served as interim CEO before O'Neill was hired.

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Eric Krapf

Eric Krapf is General Manager and Program Co-Chair for Enterprise Connect, the leading conference/exhibition and online events brand in the enterprise communications industry. He has been Enterprise Connect.s Program Co-Chair for over a decade. He is also publisher of No Jitter, the Enterprise Connect community.s daily news and analysis website.
 

Eric served as editor of No Jitter from its founding in 2007 until taking over as publisher in 2015. From 1996 to 2004, Eric was managing editor of Business Communications Review (BCR) magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. BCR was a highly respected journal of the business technology and communications industry.
 

Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.