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Mark Hurd ex Hewlett Packard CEO was defended immediately after his removal by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who called the board ‘idiots'. It seems Larry may be putting his money were his mouth is by contemplating him for a new job inside his company.

Mark Hurd has been credited with nearly doubling Hewlett Packard's market value to $100 billion and surpassing IBM Corp in annual revenue during his five year term as CEO. Larry Ellison is considering him as the new Number 2 at software behemoth Oracle.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison

The job position has yet to be clarified because Oracle has already two presidents working under Ellison, Charles Phillips and Safra Catz. Hurd has a very positive reputation within the industry as a skillful leader with an ability to run a immensely efficient business model.

KitGuru says: This move would be a strong one for Oracle who earlier this year purchased Sun Microsystems Inc for a staggering $7.4 billion.

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HP searching for new CEO https://www.kitguru.net/channel/zardon/hp-searching-for-new-ceo/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/zardon/hp-searching-for-new-ceo/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:07:51 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=13211 With the recent removal of CEO Mark Hurd, Hewlett Packard are hunting for a new leader. They have named firm Spencer Stuart as the company to spearhead this search. Analysts are saying that possible candidates so far are EMC's Pat Gelsinger, IBM's Steve Mills, Microsoft's Stephen Elop and Motorola's Greg Brown. HP's PC division boss …

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With the recent removal of CEO Mark Hurd, Hewlett Packard are hunting for a new leader. They have named firm Spencer Stuart as the company to spearhead this search.

Analysts are saying that possible candidates so far are EMC's Pat Gelsinger, IBM's Steve Mills, Microsoft's Stephen Elop and Motorola's Greg Brown. HP's PC division boss Todd Bradley is also in the running.

Mark Hurd resigned on August the 6th due to filing inaccurate expense reports relating to a female marketing coordinator Jodie Fisher, who was also a B movie actress. Hurd's removal has hit the company hard as he had received high praise for helping HP to reach new heights while reducing overall costs.

KitGuru says: Hewlett Packard are due to host an analyst meeting in late September and many think a new CEO will be announced by then, marking this as one of the fastest replacements in such a high position.

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison calls HP board ‘idiots’ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/zardon/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-calls-hp-board-idiots/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/zardon/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-calls-hp-board-idiots/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:03:17 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=11737 It would be hard this week to have escaped the name “Mark Hurd” – Hewlett Packards infamous CEO who resigned after allegations of sexual misconduct. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle has been speaking out in defense of Hurd and condemning HP's board for their actions. Hurd and Ellison are apparently friends which is quite refreshing …

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It would be hard this week to have escaped the name “Mark Hurd” – Hewlett Packards infamous CEO who resigned after allegations of sexual misconduct.

Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle has been speaking out in defense of Hurd and condemning HP's board for their actions. Hurd and Ellison are apparently friends which is quite refreshing considering there have been some competitive elements between companies.

Larry Ellison - Oracle CEO

Ellison sent an email to the New York Times saying “The H.P. board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago. That decision nearly destroyed Apple and would have if Steve hadn’t come back and saved them. In losing Mark Hurd, the H.P. board failed to act in the best interest of H.P.’s employees, shareholders, customers and partners. The H.P. board admits that it fully investigated the sexual harassment claims against Mark and found them to be utterly false.”

Ellison also has said that a debate was rife between members of the HP board on whether they should release the allegations of ‘sexual harrasment' to the public. Hurd has supposedly felt it wasn't necessary to force disclosure of the allegations after an investigation by the HP board found the claims were false.

The last reports in shows that Jodie Fisher and Mark Hurd claim that there was no romantic relationship between them however Fisher has apparently settled the claims with Hurd for an unknown amount of money. In the end Hurd was not made to resign due to this, but for falsifying expense reports in an effort to conceal the relationship.

KitGuru says: Hurd is set to get a rather huge settlement figure from HP for his forced redundancy – a figure between $40 and $50 million.

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HP CEO Mark Hurd gets apology from sex harassment ‘victim’ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/zardon/hp-ceo-mark-hurd-gets-apology-from-sex-harassment-victim/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/zardon/hp-ceo-mark-hurd-gets-apology-from-sex-harassment-victim/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:11:07 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=11531 KitGuru reported on the forced resignation of HP CEO Mark Hurd a few days ago due to sexual harassment allegations. His ‘victim' Jodie Fisher issued a press release saying she was saddened he has lost his job. “I was surprised and saddened that Mark Hurd lost his job over this. That was never my intention.” …

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KitGuru reported on the forced resignation of HP CEO Mark Hurd a few days ago due to sexual harassment allegations. His ‘victim' Jodie Fisher issued a press release saying she was saddened he has lost his job.

Jodie Fisher - at least someone is smiling

“I was surprised and saddened that Mark Hurd lost his job over this. That was never my intention.”
“Mark and I never had an affair or intimate sexual relationship. I first met Mark in 2007 when I interviewed for a contractor job at the company.”

It appears there has indeed been no sexual contact and it appears they were socialising, having dinners together when she was ‘under contract to work at high level customer and executive summit events'.

KitGuru says: Many people might recognise her as she is also an actress who has appeared in the NBC show “Age Of Love”.

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