Today on his blog, Rahul Sood announced that he is leaving Hewlett Packard where he has been CTO of Global Gaming and Advanced Computing since HP acquired VoodooPC in September 2006

Today on his blog, Rahul Sood announced that he is leaving Hewlett-Packard where he has been chief technology officer of Global Gaming and Advanced Computing since HP acquired VoodooPC in September 2006. Sood started VoodooPC in 1991, and has since led that company to prominence in the high-end gaming PC and workstation market.

His last day at HP will be December 1.

Here at PCMag.com, we've covered Voodoo PCs from the bright orange F-550 back in 2002, up to the latest HP Envy laptops with Voodoo DNA. Along the way, HP and VoodooPC have won multiple Editors' Choice awards and been called out repeatedly for their trend-setting designs. Laser-cut side panels and expanses of glass on a tower desktop? VoodooPC. Blazing liquid-cooled overclocked CPUs and graphics? Ditto. Veteran competitors, including Velocity Micro, Alienware, and Falcon Northwest have Voodoo to thank for helping set the pace of the gaming PC foot race. Likewise, up and comers like Maingear, Origin PC, iBuypower and Cyberpower have Voodoo to thank for blazing the trail.

In a post on HP's website, HP vice president and chief technology officer for HP's Personal Systems Group Phil McKinney stated, "Rahul's entrepreneurial spirit and passion for innovation made him a valuable team member as we achieved some exciting milestones over the last couple of years." Here at PCMag, we'll miss hearing Rahul talk about his groups' latest trend-setting technological wonder, but we're also sure we'll hear from him again sometime in the future.

"People who know me best know that I'm not satisfied collecting a paycheck unless I am making a remarkable difference," Sood wrote. "I can't wait to be directly involved in a product pipeline again. Nothing motivates me more than when I'm empowered to make big bets and help to create awesome products just as we did throughout most of my career."