Departing as HP CEO Among ‘Hardest Choices I’ve Ever Had to Make,’ Says Weisler
Stepping down as HP president-CEO “to tend to a family health matter” (see personals section of this issue) was a decision Dion Weisler made “following a great deal of reflection” and was “among the hardest choices I’ve ever had to…
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make,” said Weisler in opening HP's fiscal Q3 call Thursday. “There is nothing more important to me than my family.” Serving as HP’s first CEO after the 2015 separation from HP Enterprise “has been the honor of my career,” he said. The HP board “has had a rigorous succession-planning process since day one of our company," he said. The process. he said, "led the board to exactly the right leader” in Enrique Lores, president of HP’s imaging and printing business, who becomes CEO in November. The stock trended 6.2 percent lower after hours Thursday at $17.75.