Palo Alto, Ca., USA - July 16, 2013, Palo Alto, Ca., USA - HP announced that Robert R. Bennett, Raymond E. Ozzie, and James A. Skinner will join the company's board of directors.
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Mr. Bennett served as the president and CEO of Liberty Media Corporation from April 1997 until August 2005.
He was one of the founding executives of Liberty, serving as the principal financial officer from its inception in 1991 until 1997. He currently is principal of Hilltop Investments.
Mr. Bennett also served as president of Discovery Holding Company until it was merged with Discovery Communication.
Prior to his tenure at Liberty, Bennett worked with Tele-Communications in a variety of financial positions and with The Bank of New York. >
He currently serves on the boards of Liberty Media Corporation, Discovery Communications, Sprint Corporation and Demand Media.
Mr. Bennett holds a bachelor's degree with honors in economics from Denison University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Mr. Ozzie left his role as Microsoft's chief software architect in December 2010 and founded Talko Inc. He assumed the role of chief software architect at Microsoft in June 2006.
He was Microsoft's chief technical officer from April 2005 to June 2006. He took up that role when Microsoft acquired Groove Networks, a collaboration software firm he formed in 1997.
Before Groove, Mr. Ozzie was a founder and president of Iris Associate and he contributed to the development of Lotus Symphony and Software Arts' TK!Solver and VisiCalc, and worked in distributed operating systems development at Data General Corp.
Honored as one of seven "Windows Pioneers" by Microsoft, Mr. Ozzie also was named "Person of the Year" in 1995 by PC Magazine and has been inducted into the Computer Museum Industry Hall of Fame and the InfoWorld Hall of Fame.
In November 2000, he received the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society's W. Wallace McDowell Award, and in 2001, he was honored as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.
In 2004, Mr. Ozzie was inducted as a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2010, he was named as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has served as a member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and currently serves on the board of directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
Mr. Ozzie earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Mr. Skinner has served as a member of the Walgreen Co. board of directors since 2005, and was appointed non-executive chairman in July 2012.>
He is the retired vice chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corporation.
Before his promotion to McDonald's CEO in November 2004, he served as vice chairman overseeing restaurant operations in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Before becoming vice chairman, Mr. Skinner served as president and chief operating officer of the McDonald's Restaurant Group and prior to that he was president of McDonald's Europe.
He joined McDonald's International management team in 1992 as senior vice president and relationship partner, overseeing McDonald's development in Africa, Central Europe, India and the Middle East.
After serving in the U.S. Navy for nearly 10 years, Mr. Skinner began his career with McDonald's in 1971 as a restaurant manager trainee in Carpentersville, Ill.
He advanced quickly and held numerous positions in the U.S. company, including director of field operations, market manager, regional vice president and U.S. senior vice president/zone manager.
Until his retirement, Mr. Skinner served on the board of directors of McDonald's Corporation and currently serves on the boards of Ronald McDonald House Charities and Illinois Tool Works, Inc. ■