Leo Apotheker

President and CEO
Hewlett-Packard Company

Apotheker is an international tech figure who is aiming to turn giant HP into a company that marries its hardware to its own operating system, webOS, which it acquired in buying Palm. This could make the company look more like Apple and less like Dell, at least in the consumer space. Prior to joining HP, Apotheker spent 20 years at SAP, where he was integral in helping build the company into one of the world's leading providers of enterprise software. He was also the founding president and COO of ECsoft BV, one of the largest European venture capital start-ups. Apotheker was born in Aachen, Germany and graduated with a B.A. in economics and international relations from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is fluent in English, Dutch, French, German and Hebrew and has been awarded the French Légion d'honneur.

Posts With Léo Apotheker

AllThingsD Is Launching a Timeline of Tech on Facebook — And We Need Your Help

We’ve just launched our Facebook Timeline of Tech, and we’re letting our readers make the finishing touches.
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Exclusive: The HP Reorg Internal Memo

In an exclusive internal memo, HP executive VP Todd Bradley puts his team in place, and renames the Personal Systems Group as the Printing and Personal Systems Group.
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HP to Cut 275 in webOS Division as Part of Refocus on Software

Hewlett-Packard has cut another batch of employees from the division that used to be the smartphone company Palm.
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Oracle to Court: Let’s Try SAP Again

Unhappy with a judge’s ruling that slashed a judgement from $1.3 billion to $272 million, Oracle says it wants a new copyright infringement trial against rival SAP.
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HP CEO Whitman Earned One Dollar Plus $16 Million in 2011

CEO Meg Whitman may have taken only a one-dollar salary upon taking the job. But her stock-based compensation totaled more than $16 million last year.
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Filing: Without Itanium Chip, HP Is “Strategically Screwed”

But in HP’s view, Oracle sought to blow up its rival’s Business Critical Server business and lure customers to its Sun servers.
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Add Another Log to the Fire: HP Employees Grumble About Loss of Stock Grants

Executives at Hewlett-Packard are upset that a key stock-based benefit has evaporated before their very eyes. Even the man many blame, fired CEO Léo Apotheker, got hit.
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What Have We Learned From the Mark Hurd Letter?

Aret there any larger implications for Hurd or for his current employer, Oracle? Or for the world at large? Maybe it’s just a good teaching moment.
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HP to Limit Severance Payouts for Ousted Executives

Hewlett-Packard Co., still smarting from criticism over the exit packages it awarded to ousted chief executives Mark Hurd and Leo Apotheker, will limit severance payments it makes to senior executives who are pushed out.

Three Months After Bartz’s Firing, It’s Hurry Up and Wait at Yahoo (A Big Honking Update)

Still no sale or investment deal. No new CEO. No Asia resolution. And, perhaps most importantly, no clearly articulated strategy going forward. Other than that …
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