Mark Hurd is the chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard, the largest IT Company in the world. He is known as one of the best managers in the United States for turning around HP.
Mark Hurd born in New York City in 1957. He has done his Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Baylor University in 1979. He was an active member of various activities at college he played tennis, and a member of Phi Delta Theta, the Tryon Coterie.
In 1980 Hurd began his career at NCR Corporation as a junior salesman. Hurd had 25 years of experience at NCR Corp., where he executed various roles of management, operations, and sales and marketing. In 2001 he became president and chief executive officer. His made successful efforts to improve operations, supported the position of NCR’s product line and build a powerful executive team.
Mark Hurd joined HP in 2005 as chief executive officer and president and later after a year became chairman of the board of directors in September 2006.
He is known for turning around the HP and making it the leader in the sales of desktop computers and laptop computers, and increasing its market share in inkjet to 46% and laser printers to 50.5% in 2008.Hurd, known for his aggressive cost-cutting measures, eliminating 15,200 jobs, cutting the IT department from 19,000 to 8,000, decreasing the number of software applications from 6,000 to 1,500 and consolidating the HP’s 85 data centers to 6. This made HP to hire more salespeople.