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Shane V. Robison

Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

Shane Robison is responsible for shaping HP's overall corporate strategy and technology agenda. He steers the company’s $3.5 billion research and development investment as well as fostering the development of the company's 30,000 plus technical community. All of the company's senior chief technology officers and the director of HP Labs report into Robison.

Robison also leads the company's strategy and corporate development efforts including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, intellectual property licensing, venture capital community, and partnerships. He was one of four principal architects of the HP/Compaq merger and in 2004, InfoWorld declared Robison one of the world’s 25 most influential chief technology officers.

Robison was senior vice president and chief technology officer of Strategy and Technology at Compaq Computer Corporation. Prior to joining Compaq, Robison was president of Internet Technology and Development at AT&T Labs. While at AT&T, he led a 2,000-person team that was responsible for the architecture, planning and development of all of AT&T's Internet technologies and services.

Prior to AT&T, Robison was executive vice president, Research and Development, and then served as president of the Design Productivity Group at Cadence Design Systems, the world’s leading supplier of electronic design products and services.

Robison also spent seven years at Apple Computer Corporation, where he managed research on a wide range of architectures and multimedia technologies, including processors, video, telecommunications, I/O and audio. While at Apple, he held a series of executive-level positions, leaving the company as vice president and general manager of the Personal Interactive Electronics Division.

Robison's experience includes work at Schlumberger’s research groups in Silicon Valley, at Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation and consulting for the University of Utah in the area of database systems architecture.

Robison is a graduate of the University of Utah, from which he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science.