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Amazon Appoints Attorney Jamie Gorelick to Board

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 10 at 9:04 am PT

Amazon.com has added Jamie Gorelick to its board of directors. Gorelick, a partner with the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr since July 2003, will be added to the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee of the board. Previously, Gorelick held numerous positions in the U.S. government. Amazon now has 10 directors.

California Pension Fund Challenges Facebook Over Board

John Letzing and Joann S. Lublin, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Social on February 7 at 4:25 pm PT

A large California pension fund has challenged Facebook Inc. over what it sees as a lack of diversity on the company’s board of directors, just days after the social-networking firm filed papers to go public in a closely watched IPO.

Another Director Out at Hewlett-Packard: It’s Lawrence Babbio

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 30 at 1:16 pm PT

Another director leaves the technology giant.

Sari Baldauf to Leave Hewlett-Packard’s Board

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 20 at 1:14 pm PT

The former head of Nokia Networks has been an HP director since 2006.

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VMWare Co-Founder Diane Greene Joins Google’s Board

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 12 at 3:02 pm PT

Search giant Google said today it had appointed Diane B. Greene to its board of directors. Greene, 56, is a co-founder of VMWare and took that company public in 2007. She was its CEO and president for 10 years ending 2008, and was executive vice president at EMC, which partially owns VMWare. She also sits on the board of Intuit.

Stymiest Looks to Be a “Lock” for RIM Chair

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 6 at 1:15 pm PT

Sources close to the company say that co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie will soon relinquish co-chairman titles, ceding to board member and Royal Bank of Canada exec Barbara Stymiest.

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Kayak Adds HomeAway Founder and CEO to Its Board

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 3 at 11:21 am PT

Kayak, the travel comparison site, has appointed HomeAway founder and CEO Brian Sharples to its board, according to a post on its blog. Kayak says Sharples’s experience of taking HomeAway’s vacation rentals business public last year will be invaluable as it continues to mull a public offering of its own. Before founding HomeAway, Sharples was CEO of IntelliQuest.

Exclusive: Here’s What Hurd’s Actual HP Expense Reports Say About Controversial Fisher Dinners

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 30, 2011 at 10:27 am PT

While the attention surrounding the 2010 resignation of Mark Hurd focuses on allegations of sexual harassment, he was actually ousted over expense reports problems.