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Shane V. Robison; age 54; Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer
Mr. Robison has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer since May 2002. He
was elected Senior Vice President in 2002 in connection with the Compaq acquisition. Prior to joining HP, Mr. Robison
served as Senior Vice President, Technology and Chief Technology Officer at Compaq from 2000 to May 2002.
Employees
We had approximately 172,000 employees worldwide as of October 31, 2007.
Available Information and Exchange Certifications
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to
reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are
available on our website at http://www.hp.com/investor/home, as soon as reasonably practicable after HP electronically files
such reports with, or furnishes those reports to, the Securities and Exchange Commission. HP’ s Corporate Governance
Guidelines, Board of Directors committee charters (including the charters of the Audit Committee, HR and Compensation
Committee, and Nominating and Governance Committee) and code of ethics entitled “Standards of Business Conduct” also
are available at that same location on our website. Stockholders may request free copies of these documents from:
Hewlett-Packard Company
Attention: Investor Relations
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(866) GET-HPQ1 or (866) 438-4771
http://www.hp.com/investor/informationrequest
We submitted the certification of the CEO of HP required by Section 303A.12(a) of the New York Stock Exchange
“NYSE” Listed Company Manual, relating to HP’ s compliance with the NYSE’ s corporate governance listing standards, to
the NYSE on March 19, 2007 with no qualifications.
We included the certifications of the CEO and the CFO of HP required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002 and related rules, relating to the quality of HP’ s public disclosure, in this Annual Report on Form 10-K as Exhibits 31.1
and 31.2.
ITEM 1A. Risk Factors.
Because of the following factors, as well as other variables affecting our operating results, past financial performance
may not be a reliable indicator of future performance, and historical trends should not be used to anticipate results or trends in
future periods.
The competitive pressures we face could harm our revenue, gross margin and prospects.
We encounter aggressive competition from numerous and varied competitors in all areas of our business, and our
competitors may target our key market segments. We compete primarily on the basis of technology, performance, price,
quality, reliability, brand, reputation, distribution, range of products and services, ease of use of our products, account
relationships, customer training, service and support, security, availability of application software, and Internet infrastructure
offerings. If our products, services, support and cost structure do not enable us to compete successfully based on any of those
criteria, our operations, results and prospects could be harmed.
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