Phil McKinney, CTO of HP's PC Unit, Heads for the Exit

With Hewlett-Packard finally having decided to keep its Personal Systems Group rather than spin it off, that group's chief technology officer, Phil McKinney, has announced that he's leaving, in a statement on his personal blog. His last day will be Dec. 31. His statement is below: Earlier today, I announced that I will be retiring from HP. This is not the traditional retirement. I'm not planning on spending my days playing golf or sitting around the house driving my wife crazy. I have far too much passion, energy and ideas to sit on the sidelines. My definition of retirement is the freedom to write, speak, mentor, advise and teach without the restrictions of the traditional employee/corporate structure. My passion is to help innovators get better at innovating and I've spent the better part of the last dozen years fulfilling that mission. My time at HP started out as an advisor on innovation that turned into a request to join for a year or so to "help grow the innovation culture at HP". That was 9 years ago. I can honestly say they I've done everything that is within my power to fulfill that objective.

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