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Irvine's Gateway Inc. is shaping up under its Taiwanese parent, Acer Inc.
Acer is about three-fourths of its way through folding Gateway's operations into its own.
Since the $710 million deal closed back in October, Acer "has methodically worked through the process of integrating the two," Gateway spokeswoman Lisa Emard said. "They're still kind of working through the final details."
It was a bit fuzzy who would be the top local guy after former Gateway chief executive Ed Coleman left in January.
Officially, there isn't a top local executive for Gateway, according to Emard, because Acer's leaders are spread around the globe. Its chairman is in Taipei, while its chief executive is in Milan.
Managers at Gateway are set to report to Acer's Rudi Schmidleithner, who runs the PC maker's pan-American operations out of its U.S. headquarters in San Jose.
Schmidleithner makes the trip to OC every few weeks, and Gateway's trio of division heads from Irvine go up north often, Emard said.
The trio includes: Gary Elsasser, senior vice president of products;...