Former HP Chairman to surrender on Thursday
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Former Hewlett-Packard Co.   Chairman Patricia Dunn is due to surrender to  authorities on Thursday afternoon on felony charges for spying  on reporters and company directors, the California attorney  general's office said.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard's executive vice president of global operations, Gilles Bouchard, will leave the company at the end of October. The news came Tuesday immediately before HP announced that ChairmanÂ Patricia Dunn will step down. Bouchard's departure comes at aÂ difficult time for HP. Dunn faces questions from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and a congressional committee. The questions relate to the way in which details of phone calls made by board members and journalists were obtained during an internal investigation into boardroom leaks regarding the departure of former HP Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina. On Tuesday, HP announced that company CEO Mark Hurd will succeed Dunn, who will remain chairman through the companyâs Jan. 18, 2007, board meeting. Meanwhile, Hurd announced Bouchard's decision to leave in an e-mail sent to all employees late Monday, adding that Bouchard will remain in post until Oct. 31. In June, HP announced plans toÂ axe the global operations organizationÂ that Bouchard heads in an effort to simplify its operating model, folding it back into the company's three main business units: Imaging and Printing Group, Personal Systems Group and Technology Solutions Group. Bouchard's work leading that transition has been "outstanding," with the majority of the work completed in the third quarter, Hurd wrote in his e-mail. The closure of the global operations group, where Bouchard managed HP's worldwide supply chain and customer-facing operations activities, is part of aÂ broader reorganization of the companyÂ began in July 2005. That process began with the elimination of the central service unit responsible for enterprise sales, the Customer Solutions Group. Staff and activities from that group were also redeployed to the company's three main business units. Bouchard joined the company in 1989, working in its printer business. He later took charge of merging HP's supply chain with that of Compaq when the two companies joined. Before concentrating on global operations, Bouchard had an additional responsibility as the company's chief information officer, charged with simplifying HP's IT infrastructure. In that role, he was responsible for a migration of the company's ERP (enterprise resource planning) system. Then CEO Fiorina said in August 2004 that problems with that migration had contributed to the company'sÂ failure to meet financial targetsÂ in that year's third fiscal quarter.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP's) board of directors has approved a severance package including $3.7 million in stock options for its general counsel, who resigned Thursday amid a growing scandal into HP's conduct during an investigation into board leaks. Ann BaskinsÂ resigned Thursday just before a U.S. Congress subcommittee hearing on HP's investigation methods, including investigators pretending to be reporters or board members to gain access to their personal telephone records and other data. That practice is often called pretexting. During the hearing, former HP Chairwoman Patricia DunnÂ told lawmakers that Baskins had repeatedly told her the year-long investigation was done legally. HP filed a form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday saying it would provide Baskins with a compensation package, including the option to sell her outstanding stock options, worth nearly $3.7 million, by Nov. 22. Baskins will also have access to the vested portion of her retirement account at HP and to other benefits. If she accepts the package, she will give up any claims against HP and its employees, according to the SEC document. Baskins declined to testify before the subcommittee, citing her right to not testify against herself. Members of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce hammered HP officials Thursday for investigators who allegedly lied to gain access to others' personal records, for attempting to trace the e-mail of a reporter and for following reporters and board members. Representative Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, also questioned why HP was giving Baskins a "golden parachute" after Dunn identified her being one of the internal leaders of the leak investigation. "Do you think that's appropriate?" he asked Dunn. Dunn,Â who resigned from the HP board Sept. 21, said she was not a part of the board discussion to approve Baskins' severance package. She would have to hear the discussion before deciding if it was appropriate, she said. Baskins worked for HP for 24 years and served the company well before the recent questions, Dunn said. "She bled HP blue," Dunn said. "She made some mistakes."
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By AP  SAN FRANCISCO   -- Computer and printer maker Hewlett- Packard Co. said Monday that Bob Wayman, the company's longtime chief financial officer who briefly served as interim CEO, plans to retire at the end of the year.
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JUST IN At a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif. Friday, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd addressed the issues surrounding the investigation into a boardroom leak, saying former chairwoman Patricia Dunn is fully resigning her post from the board. More coverage of this latest development coming shortly.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman Patricia Dunn, who authorized an investigation of directors to determine the source of news leaks, said yesterday she would step down if the board asks her to.
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Dunny flushed Patricia Dunn has not survived the HP spy scandal â a turn of events that everyone except HP saw as inevitable long ago. Dunn today resigned from HP's board, elevating CEO Mark Hurd to the Chairman role.â¦
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HP chairwoman to step down in January    WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn will step down in January due to her involvement in an espionage scandal that has sparked legal investigations, the computer maker said on Tuesday.
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Hewlett-PackardÂs longtime chief financial officer, Robert P. Wayman, will give up the post this month and his seat on the companyÂs board in March.
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Computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday that Bob Wayman, the company's longtime chief financial officer who briefly served as interim CEO, plans to retire at the end of the year.
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By Jordan Robertson Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO - Computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday that Bob Wayman, the company's longtime chief financial officer who briefly served as interim CEO, plans to retire at the end of the year.
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Dunnie flushed Patricia Dunn has not survived the HP spy scandal â a turn of events that everyone except HP saw as inevitable long ago. Dunn today resigned from HP's board, elevating CEO Mark Hurd to the Chairman role.â¦
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday that Patricia Dunn will step down as chairwoman of the computer and printer maker in January amid a widening scandal involving a possibly illegal probe into media leaks. She will be succeeded by CEO Mark Hurd.
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Former Hewlett-Packard Co.  Chairman Patricia Dunn surrendered at a Silicon Valley courthouse on Thursday afternoon on felony charges for spying on reporters and company directors.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday that Bob Wayman, the company's longtime chief financial officer who briefly served as interim CEO, plans to retire at the end of the year.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N said   on Tuesday that George Keyworth resigned from its board after   he acknowledged being a source of information in a scandal over   boardroom press leaks.
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Hewlett-Packard's chairwoman says to step down if required    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn said on Friday that she would resign if requested by the company's board.