Intel eyes up HP chief for top job
Intel is looking to build up its executive ranks and is apparently willing to look outside of the chip company's own walls to find some new top brass to compete for the top jobs that president and chief executive officer, Paul Otellini, will vacate in five years or so.
A report in the Wall Street Journal cites unnamed sources, who claim that Intel contacted Todd Bradley, the executive vice president in charge of Hewlett-Packard's $41bn PC business, and tried to woo him into joining the chip maker. While the WSJ report didn't say when Intel approached Bradley, it was probably after Leo Apotheker had been chosen as president and CEO instead of a half dozen people inside of HP who could have done the job, including Bradley.
Bradley, who was CEO at Palm and executive VP in charge of operations at Gateway before that, is not only in charge of HP's PC, smartphone, and tablet lines. He also controls the vast HP supply chain and its channel partner network. That makes him one of the most important people at HP, which is a neat trick since he is not an HP insider like many other executives are. (Bradley actually joined HP in 2006, years ahead of its Palm acquisition.)
