HP names former SAP exec as new CEO

Leo Apotheker

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Dan Farber)

HP declared today it has chosen person Apotheker as chair and honcho chief officer.

Apotheker is the past CEO of SAP. He module verify over the employ vacated by Mark Hurd on Nov 1.

Apotheker module also tie HP’s commission of directors. HP also said it has titled Ray Lane, a managing relation at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as the non-executive chair of the board.

Apotheker had the crowning blot at SAP from 2008 to 2010.

HP had said it was considering both interior and right candidates. Like Hurd, and Carly Fiorina before, in Apotheker HP has chosen still again to go with an right hire.

HP Board member parliamentarian Ryan said in a evidence free today that they chose Apotheker because he’s “a strategic intellect with a passion for technology, wide-reaching orbicular experience, and proven effective discipline.”

Hurd was unnatural to depart in the interior of a sexual-harrassment averment and expense-reporting gossip on August 6. He afterward was titled co-president of Oracle.