100 Executive Women in Tech
to Watch in 2025
Fidelma Russo
Chief Technology Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Fidelma Russo serves as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Hybrid Cloud unit, concurrently holding the role of Chief Technology Officer. Leading a global team of 5,500+ employees, she spearheads HPE's strategic vision, steering the development and execution of HPE's GreenLake platform, storage solutions, private cloud, and SaaS offerings. Additionally, she fosters innovation through the Office of the CTO, shaping an innovation pipeline.
Joining HPE in 2021 as the CTO, Russo crafted and delivered the foundational GreenLake platform, central to HPE's edge-to-cloud solutions. With over three decades of technology leadership, her expertise spans machine learning, analytics, IT business services, cloud solutions, servers, storage, networking, backup, and infrastructure.
Previously, Russo held significant leadership roles at VMware, Iron Mountain, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems. Recognized in CRN's Top 100 Executive awards and Top 25 IT Innovators of 2023, she also serves on Equinix's Board of Directors. Russo earned a Bachelor of Engineering in electrical engineering from University College Cork, a master's in computer science from Boston University, and completed the Internet of Things Executive Education program at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Joining HPE in 2021 as the CTO, Russo crafted and delivered the foundational GreenLake platform, central to HPE's edge-to-cloud solutions. With over three decades of technology leadership, her expertise spans machine learning, analytics, IT business services, cloud solutions, servers, storage, networking, backup, and infrastructure.
Previously, Russo held significant leadership roles at VMware, Iron Mountain, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems. Recognized in CRN's Top 100 Executive awards and Top 25 IT Innovators of 2023, she also serves on Equinix's Board of Directors. Russo earned a Bachelor of Engineering in electrical engineering from University College Cork, a master's in computer science from Boston University, and completed the Internet of Things Executive Education program at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
