Fall Channel Follies: Notable Executive Moves -- September

And Another For HP...

In another eye-popping personnel move announced Sept. 30, HP named Ray Lane its non-executive board chairman. Lane, whose name had been mentioned on the list of potential Hurd successors, has been a managing partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers since 2001. In another bit of irony, Lane is a former president of Oracle, a role now held by Hurd.