McAfee Sheds Top Execs Over Earnings Probe
News Resulting from the company's stock options investigation, George Samenuk, chief executive, has resigned, and Kevin Weiss, president, was fired. In January, Gene Hodges, McAfee president, resigned to join rival Websense as its chief executive.
[October 11, 2006, 15:30]
PeopleSoft CEO Resigns
News PeopleSoft founder David Duffield, who returned as chief executive of the business software maker during its takeover battle with rival Oracle, has resigned from the company. After leading the company he founded for 12 years, Duffield resigned as...
[December 29, 2004, 8:55]
The Cloud's CEO Quit To Save Planet
News George Polk resigned as chief executive of The Cloud earlier this year amid rumblings of discontent at the Wi-Fi network provider. Hence I started a search in the fall, found and hired Steve [Nicholson, the new chief executive,] in January, and...
[May 1, 2007, 13:34]
PeopleSoft Executive Leaves The Company
News The company declined to comment on whether Gupta resigned or was fired. Over the last two years, [Gupta's] top role was the integration of PeopleSoft and J.D. Last September, Gupta and PeopleSoft's management team addressed Wall Street during an...
[October 15, 2004, 18:25]
Building A Better Borland
News We've resigned ourselves to the fact that we're competing with IBM directly. The IDE as a part of a broader developer role in our ALM (application lifecycle management) suite is still a very compelling opportunity for us as we think about adding on...
[September 27, 2005, 15:05]
Ellison Resigns From Apple Board
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has resigned from Apple Computer's board of directors, saying he no longer has the time to devote to the company. I will continue to offer my advice to (Apple chief executive) Steve (Jobs) and the executive...
[September 20, 2002, 14:01]
A Year Ago: Apple Names Jobs Caretaker CEO
News Apple Computer Inc.last Tuesday named co-founder Steve Jobs as interim chief executive officer two months after Gil Amelio resigned from the position. Apple said it formalised Jobs' role at its new board's first regularly scheduled meeting last...
[September 16, 1998, 9:26]
Napster Shuffles Executives
News In November, the company announced that longtime chief financial officer Elliot Carpenter had resigned, and was being replaced by Nand Gangwani. Duea has previously played a key role in negotiating licensing agreements with record labels, and he...
[January 30, 2004, 7:50]
Apple Names Jobs Caretaker CEO
News Apple said it formalised Jobs' role at its new board's first regularly scheduled meeting last week and expects to name a new CEO by year's end. Jobs, a newly appointed board member to the troubled computer company, has been serving as an adviser to...
[September 16, 1997, 14:03]
SAP Loses Key Exec Agassi
News Although one analyst was surprised by the announcement and the speed at which Agassi will be transitioning out of his role, the company is expected to weather the change. Given this, I made the recommendation to the supervisory board that we change...
[March 29, 2007, 8:28]
