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Timeline: Hewlett-Packard CEOs

March 30, 2005 12:00 PM ET

Computerworld -










HP's previous CEOs






1930s - 1977




Co-founders David Packard and William Hewlett run company.

David Packard bio

William Hewlett bio





1978



John Young, a longtime HP employee and engineer, serving as executive vice president
of the company's Instrument, Computer Systems and Components Groups, is named CEO.

John Young bio





1992



John Young retires; Lew Platt, an HP employee for 26 years, head of the Computer
Systems Organization, is named CEO and president.

Lew Platt bio





1999



Lew Platt retires; Carleton (Carly) Fiorina, head of the global service provider
business unit at Lucent Technologies Inc., is named CEO and president.

Carly Fiorina bio





2005



Fiorina is dismissed; Mark Hurd, CEO of NCR Corp., is named CEO and member of the board.

Mark Hurd bio







Sources: Hewlett Packard Co. Web site; IDG News Service


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