Hewlett-Packard Chairman to Become CEO of Winery

Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman Lewis Platt was named chief executive of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates Ltd., beginning his “second career” after he retires from the world’s No. 2 computer maker. Platt, 58, will take the helm at the winery in January. He was succeeded as HP chief executive in July by former Lucent Technologies Inc. executive Carleton Fiorina, 45. Closely held Kendall-Jackson, based in Santa Rosa, Calif., sold more than 3 million cases of wine last year.

Platt said in an interview last month that he planned to “join an established company which is in a quite different line of business and really start a second career.” He joined Hewlett-Packard in 1966, and 26 years later became chief executive. In 1993, he succeeded co-founder David Packard as chairman.