According to Bloomberg, HP’s board of directors is considering sacking Leo Apotheker, the CEO who was appointed after his predecessor Mark Hurd was fired for sexual molestation.
Bloomberg says the board may appoint Meg Whitman to the CEO role. E-bay co-founder Whitman recently ran for the governorship of
HP’s shares have fallen 44% since Apotheker was appointed CEO on November 1st 2010.
Apotheker recently bought Autonomy for $ 10bn, scrapped TouchPad the company’s iPad rival and suggested that the PC division would be spun off.
HP had trouble back in 2006 when its then Chairman, Patricia Duun, resigned after it was found she had put phone-tap surveillance on board members to monitor press leaks.
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers co-founder, Tom Perkins, was the HP board member who led the moves to oust Dunn.
