HP has just announced a major change in its board of directors: it has appointed five new board members while removing four others.
Effective January 21, the new directors will be Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, Shumeet Banerji, CEO of Booz & Company, Gary Reiner, former CIO of General Eletric, Patricia Russo, former CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, and Dominque Senequier, CEO of AXA Private Equity. Each will have to stand for re-election in March.
At the same time, four incumbent directors will be stepping down, including Joel Hyatt (Current Media), John Joyce (Silver Springs Networks), Robert Ryan (Medtronic) and Lucille Salhany (JHMedia). With the changes, HP's board will have 13 directors.