Biography                        Harry W. (Webb) McKinney                               Management Consultant                          Retired EVP Hewlett Packard Co.

Webb McKinney is currently a management consultant with a primary focus on merger integration. Mr. McKinney also serves on the boards of two non profit organizations: Resource Area for teaching (RAFT), and The American Leadership Forum of Silicon Valley (ALF).

Prior to retiring from HP after 34 years of service in Nov 2003, McKinney was the EVP leading HP's ongoing merger integration and global citizenship efforts, as well as HP's organizational effectiveness and governance initiatives.

Previously, McKinney co-led HP's post-merger integration team. His responsibilities included planning and leading the integration of HP and Compaq's systems, processes and people.

Before the merger, McKinney served as president for the Business Customer Organization at HP, with responsibility for worldwide sales of HP products and services and worldwide marketing and delivery of HP products to large companies and small- and medium-sized businesses.
In 1999, McKinney was appointed an HP vice president and became the vice president and general manager of the PC business within the HP Computing Systems Organization. In this role, he had worldwide responsibility for the development, manufacturing and marketing of the Personal Systems Group's commercial desktop, mobile computing and server businesses.

McKinney was named general manager of the newly formed Home Products Division in 1994, leading HP's initial entry into the consumer market for home computing products. Previously that year, he was named general manager of the Interactive Television Appliances Division.

Between 1992 and 1994, McKinney served as general manager of the PC Software Division in Sunnyvale, Calif. He was named general manager of the former Cooperative Object Computing Division in 1990 after having served as general manager of the Santa Clara Information Systems Division since 1988.

In 1986, McKinney was named general manager of the former Office Productivity Division in Pinewood, England. Between 1983 and 1970, he held various research and development and division R&D management positions at the Santa Clara Division, the former Personal Office Computer Division and the Personal Computer Group. McKinney joined HP in 1969 as a sales engineer in the Santa Clara office.

McKinney was born in Upland, Calif. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.