TECHNOLOGY - March 12, 1993
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Denies He Is IBM Candidate: John Young, the former president and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co., denied that he is a candidate for the top post at International Business Machines Corp. Young, 60, issued a brief statement through a Hewlett-Packard spokeswoman saying he is “definitely not a candidate for the IBM job.” Young is the third business executive this week to say he won’t be succeeding John F. Akers as IBM’s chief executive.
