VP Meaghan Kelly, who will exit June 15 and join SAP on June 18. Kelly, a channel veteran with extensive SMB, cloud and mobile experience, is expected to focus on similar market segments when she joins SAP later this month.

Gary Koopman, former VP of U.S. distribution at HP, recently joined Oracle.

Tom LaRocca, a former HP channel leader, joined Oracle in January as VP of worldwide product strategy and alliances.

Frank Rauch, VP of U.S. channels in HP’s Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking division, is leaving for a position at VMware, CRN reported yesterday.

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch was recently forced out the door after Autonomy’s financial performance didn’t meet HP’s expectations.

Stephen DiFranco is the newly appointed VP of the Enterprise Group Channel Organizations in the Americas, overseeing HP’s Alliance, OEM, VAR, VAD and Cloud Partner Groups. DiFranco is a two-year HP veteran who was previously Lenovo’s channel chief.

George Kadifa has been appointed executive VP of the company’s software business, a role he takes over from Bill Veghte. Kadifa joins HP from Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm with more than $14 billion of assets under management.

Bill Veghte has been named HP’s chief operating officer (COO), and will continue to oversee the HP strategy.

Jan Zadak assumes the newly created role of president, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), HP Enterprise Services, effective immediately.  The move is meant to strengthen HP’s struggling services business, built atop the EDS acquisition.