HP Board Chairwoman Agrees to Resign
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HP board chairwoman agrees to resign    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn agreed to resign next year in an effort to defuse a widening scandal surrounding the company's use of private investigators to obtain directors' phone records.
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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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(InfoWorld) - Like a good friend who has just gotten out of a terrible relationship, Hewlett-Packard seemed to be on the rebound and all the happier for it in recent months. After the departure of controversial CEO Carly Fiorina, the company has as of late shown newfound confidence and focus under new CEO Mark Hurd. But allâs still not well in the higher echelons of HP, as revealed in a filing the company made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The sudden and unexpected resignation of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Thomas Perkins from HPâs board of directors in May turned into a full-blown scandal last week, spawning law enforcement and SEC investigations and a PR nightmare for HP. At the center of the controversy is a legally and ethically questionable internal investigation of leaks of confidential company information to the media dating back to 2005. According to a copy of a letter from Perkins to the HP board explaining his sudden resignation, and republished on thesmokinggun.comâs Web site (a sure sign, if ever there was one, that youâre in the PR doghouse), HP hired outside companies to obtain personal phone records of board members using âpretextingâ (thatâs âsocial engineeringâ to you and me), in which a private investigator impersonated board members to obtain details of private phone company billing statements. In his letter, Perkins says he has proof that his own phone records were âhackedâ in the investigation. Those investigations ultimately fingered George Keyworth, an HP director since 1986, as the source of information about board deliberations and other confidential information, which were leaked to the media without authorization. Keyworth acknowledged he had leaked information at a board meeting on May 18 but refused the boardâs request to step down. Perkins announced his own resignation at that meeting, citing âpersonal frustrationâ with board Chairwoman Patricia Dunn over the handling of the leak investigation. In the meantime, the dispute has spilled over into the public domain. The attorney general of California asked HP to supply information about the leak investigation. The SEC has also been in touch over the 8-K filing HP made when Perkins resigned. HP believes its disclosures in May were âaccurate and complete.â In an Aug. 31 meeting, HPâs board of directors determined that Keyworth shouldnât be nominated for another term on the board.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N said on   Tuesday Chairman Patricia Dunn will step down on January 18,   2007, after coming under fire for ordering a controversial   board investigation into boardroom leaks to the media.
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Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn will remain in her post until January, when she will be succeeded by chief executive Mark Hurd, the computer maker said Tuesday.
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PALO ALTO, Calif.  -- Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn resigned Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of the company's ill-fated investigation of media leaks.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board of directors yesterday called an emergency meeting for Sunday as a scandal involving spying on board members and journalists escalated and prompted Chairman Patricia C. Dunn to say she would step down if asked.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N said on   Thursday its general counsel, Ann Baskins, resigned ahead of a   congressional hearing on the company's snooping into the   telephone records of some board members and journalists.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd announced that Board Chairman Patricia Dunn has resigned from the board, effective immediately, in the wake of a boardroom leak scandal that has swept over the company.
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Patricia Dunn is out as Hewlett-Packard's chairwoman and another board member quits as the investigation into the company fraudulently obtaining personal phone records widens.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard has settled a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation regardingÂ the resignation of Tom Perkins from its board. Perkins was a central character in theÂ scandal at HPÂ over tactics the company used to try to find the source of internal information leaks. The SEC concluded that HP should have revealed that Perkins resigned because he disagreed with the companyâs activities. HP also should have described the circumstances around the disagreement, the SEC said. HP didn't admit to any wrongdoing but agreed to the SEC making a filing with its conclusions. The SEC wonât fine HP or impose any other penalties related to this investigation. Perkins quit the board in May last year when it was revealed that private investigators hired by HP may have used illegal methods to identify another board member as the source of leaks about the company to the media. He later urged the company to reveal the reasons behind his resignation. In September, HP did say in an SEC filing that Perkins resigned over the investigation. Perkins has publicly traded barbs with other former board members, including former chairman Patricia Dunn, about how the investigations into the internal leaks were handled.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N   Chairman Patricia Dunn on Tuesday agreed to step down in a   boardroom shake-up, as the No. 2 computer maker tried to defuse   a scandal over its investigation into media leaks.
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HP's general counsel has resigned immediately from the company, the fourth to do so behind former chairwoman Patricia Dunn and two other HP execs. Additionally, she will not testify in Congressional hearings.
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By Jordan Robertson Associated Press  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn will step down in January and be succeeded by CEO Mark Hurd amid a widening scandal involving the computer and printer company's possibly illegal probe into media leaks.
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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.
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PALO ALTO, California  - Hewlett-Packard Co. said   on Friday that Chairman Patricia Dunn has resigned effective   immediately, as pressure mounts on the computer maker over the   methods it used to investigate boardroom leaks.
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Hewlett-Packard  Co. on Friday said Chairman Patricia Dunn had resigned  effective immediately as pressure on the computer maker mounts  over an internal investigation into boardroom leaks.