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  1. David Packard

    David Packard (September 7, 1912 - March 26, 1996) was a cofounder of Hewlett-Packard. Born in Pueblo, Colorado, he received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1934. Afterwards he worked for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. In 1938, he returned from New York to Stanford, where he received a master's in electrical engineering the following year. In the same year, he married Lucile Salter with whom he had four children: David, Nancy, Susan, and Julie.

  2. David Woodley Packard

    David Woodley Packard, Ph.D. (b. 1940) is a former professor and noted philanthropist; he is the son of Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard. A former HP board member (1987-1999), David is best known for his opposition to the HP-Compaq merger and his support for classical studies, especially in regards to the digitization of classics research. Packard currently serves as president of the Packard Humanities Institute.

  3. William Reddington Hewlett

    William Redington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 - January 12, 2001) was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan but moved to San Francisco at the age of 3 years. He attended Lowell High School and was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father, Albion Walter Hewlett, who had died prematurely of a brain tumor in 1925. Hewlett received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1934, …

  4. Rob Enderle

    Rob Enderle, founder of the Enderle Group, is a consultant, writer, and widely quoted technical and legal analyst in the information technology industry. Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices, the SCO Group, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell are (or have been) among his clients. Enderle has been critical of Apple Computer and Linux, as well as Unix and the open source/free software movements in general.

  5. Michael Capellas

    Michael D. Capellas , president and CEO of MCI, recently confirmed his participation as speakers at WCIT 2006. Capellas is a 30-year veteran of the information technology business and an established thought leader in areas ranging from information technology, telecommunications and homeland security to the next generation of consumer electronics. Prior to joining MCI in December 2002, he was president of Hewlett-Packard Company. Previously, he was the chairman and CEO of Compaq.

  6. Tom Perkins

    Thomas James Perkins (born 1932) is an American businessman, capitalist, and was one of the founders of leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.

  7. Ann Baskins

    Ann O'Neil Baskins (born August 51955 in Red Bluff, California, USA) is former General Counsel for Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Baskins was linked to the HP pretexting scandal. On September 28, 2006, following public disclosure of the matter, Baskins resigned effective immediately, hours before she was to appear as a witness before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce at which she would later invoke the Fifth Amendment to refuse to answer questions.

  8. Robert

    Robert (Bob) Barton is recognized as the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700. He directed a research lab for Burroughs Corporation in La Jolla, CA. He also taught, from 1968-1973, as a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Utah with David C. Evans, Ivan Sutherland and Thomas Stockham.

  9. Mark V. Hurd

    Mark V. Hurd is the chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard. He replaced Carly Fiorina, who left at the advice of HP's board of directors after the difficult merger with Compaq and a struggle with the HP board after reports of disappointing earnings. Hurd succeeded CFO Robert Wayman who had served as interim CEO from February 10, 2005-March 28, 2005.

  10. Bdale Garbee

    Bdale Garbee is a computer specialist who works with Linux, particularly Debian GNU/Linux. He is currently the Linux CTO at Hewlett-Packard, and the current President of Software in the Public Interest. Bdale Garbee has been a Debian developer since the earliest days of the project in the mid-1990s, and he set up the original developer machine named "master.debian.org" in 1995. He has later served as a Debian Project Leader for one year (2002-2003).

  11. Robert Wayman

    Robert P. Wayman is currently the chief financial officer and executive vice president of the Hewlett-Packard Company, as well as a member of the HP board of directors. He has been CFO since 1984. He joined the company in 1969 and has been on the board since 2005; he previously served on the board from 1993 to 2002. He was also interim CEO after Carly Fiorina stepped down in 2005 until Mark Hurd assumed the position.

  12. Patricia C. Dunn

    Patricia Cecile Dunn (born March 271953 in Burbank, California), aka Patricia Cecile Dunn-Jahnke, is the former non-executive chairman of the board of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), a position she held from February 2005 until September 22, 2006, when she resigned her position. On October 4,2006 Bill Lockyer the California Attorney General charged Dunn with four felonies for her role in the HP investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of company information.

  13. Carly Fiorina

    Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina (born "Cara Carleton Sneed"; September 61954 in Austin, Texas) is an American business executive, best known as former CEO (1999-2005) and Chairman of the Board (2000-2005) of Hewlett-Packard (HP).

  14. Greg Papadopoulos

    Greg Papadopoulos, Ph.D. is the current Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sun Microsystems. He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore's Law. Papadopoulos achieved a B.A. in systems science from the University of California, San Diego, …

  15. Justin Rattner

    Justin Rattner , 59, is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO). He is also an Intel Senior Fellow and head of the Corporate Technology Group. In the latter role, he directs Intel's global research efforts in microprocessors, systems, and communications including the company's disruptive research activity. In 1989, Rattner was named Scientist of the Year by R&D Magazine for his leadership in parallel and distributed computer architecture.

  16. Lewis E. Platt

    Lewis Platt Former CEO, Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates (1999 - 2001) and F ormer CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company (1992-99)

  17. Jon Rubinstein

    Jon has helped launch some of the most influential computing products of the past decade. As a member of Apple Inc.'s executive staff and head of hardware engineering, he was instrumental in conceiving the iPod, one of the most successful consumer electronics products ever. He also led the team that built the iMac. Jon began his Apple career in 1997 as senior vice president for hardware engineering.

  18. Andrew Filipowski

    "'Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski" a Polish American technology entrepreneur born in 1950 in Chicago IL. He is currently the Executive Chairman and CEO of SilkRoad Equity, a private investment firm, and founded Platinum Technology in 1987. He founded or cofounded Blue Rhino Corporation, Primo Water, SilkRoad technology, inc., DBMS, Inc., the House of Blues, SolidSpace, Inc., onramp Branding, MissionMode and InterAct 911 Corp. He was the COO of Cullinet

  19. George A. Keyworth II

    Dr. George Albert II Keyworth (G. A. Keyworth) (born 1939), U.S. physicist; presidential science advisor 1981-1985. He was a board member of Hewlett Packard who was asked to step down in light of the controversy surrounding disclosure of sensitive information to the media. He resigned on September 13, 2006.

  20. Nicholas G. Carr

    Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American "business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology." Carr holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from Harvard University. Carr wrote the 2004 book "Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press) and the 2003 "Harvard Business Review" article "IT Doesn't Matter." In these works, …

  21. David Kirk

    Dr David Kirk Ph.D. is NVIDIA's Chief Scientist. From June 1996 to January 1997, Dr. Kirk was a software and technical management consultant. From 1993 to 1996, Dr. Kirk was Chief Scientist and Head of Technology for Crystal Dynamics, a video game manufacturing company. From 1989 to 1991, Dr. Kirk was an engineer for Apollo Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard. Dr.

  22. Max Barry

    Max Barry (also Maxx Barry; born March 18, 1973) is a contemporary Australian author. He says about himself that he "put an extra X in his name for Syrup because he thought it was a funny joke about marketing and failed to realize everyone would assume he was a pretentious asshole." He commands a cult following for his entertaining blog and his "funny and clever" books.

  23. Steve Jurvetson

    Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena for $8B), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Mr. Jurvetson was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated.

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  25. John A. Young

    John A. Young succeeded William Hewlett as president of Hewlett-Packard in 1977, and as chief executive officer in 1978. In 1992, he retired from his position as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a position he held for fifteen years. He has had a long association with competitiveness issues, having chaired President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness and founded the Council on Competitiveness in 1986. Young is also a director of Affymetrix, Chevron Corporation, …

  26. Daniel Amor

    Daniel Amor is an author of e-business books. His biggest bestseller is "The E-Business (R)Evolution," which has been translated into twelve languages and is available in two editions. Amor is working for Hewlett-Packard in Europe on large-scale e-business projects, including Portal- and SOA-related technologies for employees, customers and businesses. He lives and works with his family in Stuttgart, Germany.

  27. Terry Shannon

    Terry Craig (T.C.) Shannon was an information technology consultant, journalist and author. For over 30 years, he was involved in implementing PDP, VAX, and Alpha computers with their respective operating systems RSX, VAX/VMS; and OpenVMS & Windows NT. He was a respected journalist and analyst, paying particular attention to HP/Compaq and the high-performance computing space, writing a series of newsletters.

  28. Ron Gonzales

    Ronald R. Gonzales (born 1951) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, who served as the 63<sup>rd</sup> Mayor of San Jose, California. Gonzales was the first Hispanic Mayor of San Jose since California became a U.S. state in 1850. Gonzales grew up in the Santa Clara Valley, and graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. From the late 1970s to the mid 1990s, …

  29. Alan Curtis Kay

    Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, …

  30. David Crane

    David Crane (born in Nappanee, Indiana) is a video game designer and programmer. Crane started his programming career at Atari, making games for the Atari 2600. After meeting up with co-worker Alan Miller in a tennis game, Miller discussed with him a plan he had to leave and found a company that would give game designers more recognition. From this meeting, he left Atari in 1979 and co-founded Activision, along with Miller, Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead and Larry Kaplan.

  31. Sari Baldauf

    Sari Maritta Baldauf (born. August 10 1955, Kotka, Finland) is the former head of Nokia Networks. Baldauf graduated as a Master of Economices from Helsinki School of Economics in 1979 and joined Nokia in 1983. She was selected into Nokia's Group Executive Board in 1994. Baldauf was selected as the most influential female executive in the year 1998 by Fortune. In 2002 Wall Street Journal named Baldauf as the Europe's most successful female executive.

  32. Steve Stoute

    Steve "The Commissioner" Stoute is an American record executive, most famous for being rapper Nas's off-and-on manager since 1995. Nas first hired Stoute after the absence of commercial success from his first album, "Illmatic". Stoute helped the rapper develop a new, Mafioso-based image, and the re-invented "Nas Escobar" released "It Was Written", which was a double-platinum success. Stoute also helped Nas form a super group called The Firm with Foxy Brown, …

  33. Bill Lester

    Bill Lester (born February 6, 1961) is the driver of the #15 Chevrolet Silverado in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He is the only African-American presently competing full-time in a NASCAR circuit. In 1984, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley. Fresh out of college, he worked at Hewlett-Packard for a few years before deciding he wanted to focus on auto racing.

  34. Stuart Parkin

    Stuart Parkin FRS is a British experimental physicist at IBM's Almaden Research Center. Born in Watford, Parkin received his BSc degree in physics and theoretical physics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1977. He was elected to a research fellowship at the Cavendish Laboratory and obtained his doctorate in 1980. Parkin then worked for two years on a Royal Society European Exchange Fellowship at the Université Paris-Sud before joining IBM Research in 1982, …

  35. Josh Fisher

    Joseph A. (Josh) Fisher is a Hewlett-Packard Senior Fellow. He worked at HP Labs from 1990 through 2006 in instruction-level parallelism and in custom embedded VLIW processors and their compilers. Fisher retired from active employment at HP in 2006. Fisher studied at the Courant Institute of NYU (B.A., M.A., and then Ph.D. in 1979), where he devised the Trace Scheduling compiler algorithm and coined the term Instruction-level parallelism.

  36. Bernard M. Oliver

    Bernard M. Oliver (1919 - 1995), (aka Barney Oliver) was an eminent scientist having made important contributions in many fields including Radar, Television, and Computers. He was the founder and director of Hewlett Packard (HP) laboratories until his retirement in 1981. He is also a recognized pioneer in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI).

  37. Jane Jensen

    Jane Jensen (b. 28 January 1963 in Palmerton, Pennsylvania) is the game designer of the popular and critically-acclaimed Gabriel Knight adventure games and author of the novels "Judgement Day" and "Dante's Equation". Jane Jensen was born Jane Elizabeth Smith, the youngest of seven children. She received a BA in Computer Science from Anderson University in Indiana and worked as a systems programmer for Hewlett-Packard.

  38. James F. Moore

    Dr. James F. Moore is a well-known student of large scale social, economic, and technical systems. Moore pioneered the concepts of "business ecosystems" and the ecological approach as a way to communicate about systems evolution and business strategy. These concepts took root in high technology business, and are used for corporate strategy-making, business development, and investing in many business sectors.

  39. Crawford Beveridge

    Crawford W. Beveridge , 60, is a technology industry veteran with more than 35 years of experience. His role as Executive Vice President and Chairman, EMEA, APAC and the Americas, is to represent Sun's interests in geographies outside of the US, particularly in high growth geographies or where Sun has significant investment, such as the EU, Brazil, Russia, India and China.

  40. Steve Sakoman

    Steve Sakoman is a computing executive. He recently retired from Apple Computer. He originally worked at Hewlett-Packard as a manufacturing engineer and project manager for the industry's first battery powered portable MS-DOS PC, the HP-110. He then moved to Silicon Graphics and as director of Consumer Products & Technologies Group. This included work on the Nintendo 64 graphics system.

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