One of the people who left NCR in Hurd’s wake was Jon Hoak, who served as senior vice president and general counsel at NCR from 1993 until May 2006. He became chief ethics and compliance officer for HP in October 2006.
Ethisphere.com named Hoak one of the 25 most influential people in business ethics in 2007.
Hurd had a quarter century with NCR. He earned a bachelor’s in business administration from Baylor University in 1979 and joined NCR in 1980. He went on to lead what was then the company’s Teradata division in the fall of 1999. (Teradata was spun off from NCR in 2007 to become its own publicly traded company.) He was elected president in July 2001 and named chief operating officer in September 2004.
The NCR CEO previous to Hurd, Lars Nyberg, initiated a two-year restructuring campaign in 2002. The company cut 500 jobs, 200 of them locally.
When Nyberg announced hat he was stepping down, opening the door for Hurd, Wall Street welcomed the news. NCR’s stock gained 12 percent the day after the announcement.
Bill Nuti took NCR’s helm after Hurd left, eventually moving NCR’s headquarters from Dayton to the Atlanta, Ga. area over the past year.
Though Hoak is not listed among executives on HP’s web site, his LinkedIn profile gives his current position as “VP at Hewlett-Packard.” Efforts to reach Hoak and a spokesman for HP were not immediately successful Friday afternoon.