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...Quattrone has been listed as a potential witness by the prosecution, along with Léo Apotheker, the HP chief executive at the time of the deal....
...All of the leaders mentioned (Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, Léo Apotheker) and one not mentioned (Meg Whitman) failed to either maintain or revive the innovative heartbeat of the company....
...The former finance director of Hewlett-Packard called Léo Apotheker, HP’s then chief executive, a “dead man walking” shortly before he fired her, as the pair clashed over his backing of HP’s $11bn Autonomy...
...CEOs and their advisers still get pay rises and success fees – if, unlike HP’s Leo Apotheker, they hang on to their jobs....
...Léo Apotheker was ousted from HP in September 2011 just weeks after the Autonomy deal was announced....
...Apotheker’s disastrous $9bn acquisition of software Autonomy....
...The former HP chief was asked on Wednesday about a 2012 internal email in which she discussed how to respond to criticism of the Autonomy deal, which had been negotiated by her predecessor Léo Apotheker....
...HPE has called a string of high-profile witnesses including its former chief executives Meg Whitman and Léo Apotheker and has sought to paint Mr Lynch as a “controlling and demanding” man who took an “unusually...
...Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman winced in the witness box at the High Court in London over an email saying she was happy to throw her predecessor Léo Apotheker “under the bus” over his...
...First, he questioned her on an embarrassing email where she said she was happy to throw her predecessor Léo Apotheker “under the bus” for the disastrous acquisition....
...HP later fired chief executive Léo Apotheker, who helped negotiate the Autonomy deal, and replaced him with Meg Whitman, who refocused the business on hardware....
...Silicon Valley's oldest tech company's London experience Poor Léo Apotheker!...
...This article has been amended to clarify the circumstances of Léo Apotheker’s departure from HP...
...He is on a list of 70 people who have been called to testify, including Léo Apotheker, the former HP chief executive, who was widely seen as having overpaid for Autonomy and later sacked before the acquisition...
...maker Compaq, which led to a public feud with the company’s founding families; Mark Hurd’s acquisitions of IT services company EDS, the Palm handset business and a collection of software companies; and Léo...
...In an email to chief executive Léo Apotheker, he says he is “haunted” by the transaction....
...In the world of business, Meg Whitman became HP’s third chief executive in a little more than a year in September 2011, succeeding Léo Apotheker, who in turn had replaced Mark Hurd....
...“We had reservations about Leo [Apotheker, then CEO] but figure since you were there nothing stupid would happen.”...
...In September 2011, Léo Apotheker, HP’s chief executive at the time of the deal, wrote an email to Ray Lane, HP’s chairman, saying: “If Autonomy and more software isn’t the solution, what is the alternative...
...Faced with making up for lost time in reshaping HP’s portfolio, his successor, Léo Apotheker, tried something radical....
...“EDS had more leaders than HP had CEOs,” she says, a reference to the forced departures of former bosses Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd and Léo Apotheker....
...How about the $30.4m paid to HP’s Léo Apotheker for 11 months’ work, including the acquisition of software group Autonomy, which resulted in an $8.8bn writedown. Well worth $3,740 an hour?...
...Léo Apotheker is making a comeback. His plan is to be one of the unheralded saviours of the European technology scene – and that is what the 61-year-old German-born entrepreneur wants to talk about....
...After HP’s board sacked its then chief executive Léo Apotheker, with the Autonomy deal still pending, the new management team appointed in his place looked into scrapping the acquisition....
...Her first move when appointed three years ago was to keep the whole thing together but now may simply be a better time to attempt a separation than the rushed effort by Léo Apotheker, her predecessor....
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