Armando Zagalo de Lima

Overview

Armando Zagalo de Lima is a corporate vice president and president, Xerox Europe for Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Conn. He was named to this position January 2004. He has been a corporate officer since July 2000. Zagalo de Lima is responsible for managing the company's multi-billion dollar European operations, driving business activity in more than 20 countries. European Solutions Group, headquartered in Uxbridge, markets Xerox's products, solutions and services throughout Europe. It has manufacturing operations in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Holland and an advanced research and development center in Grenoble, France. Zagalo de Lima joined Xerox in Portugal in 1983 and has held a variety of management positions throughout his career. Following several sales and marketing positions in Portugal, he was named national sales manager for Xerox Belgium in 1990. He was appointed general manager of Xerox Belgium in 1993 and in 1996 moved to the UK to become director of the Xerox Technical Center in Welwyn Garden City. This site had product and software development units; technical and software support responsibilities and was the solutions development competence center. In 1997 he was appointed general manager of Xerox's Southern European entity with responsibility for operations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. In 2000 he was named deputy managing director of Xerox Europe with responsibility for its global document solutions and services group. Most recently he was senior vice president and chief operating officer for Xerox European Solutions Group where he was responsible for industry, geographic field operations and concessionaires. Zagalo de Lima earned a master's degree in information technology and electronics engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon. He can speak Portuguese, English, French, Spanish and Italian. Zagalo de Lima was born August 21, 1958 in Lisbon, Portugal.