John A. Young (born April 24, 1932) is an American business executive and electrical engineer. He was chief executive officer of

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from 1978 to 1992. He also formerly served as a director of

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Biography

Young was born in 1932 in

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. He received his BS degree in electrical engineering in 1953 from

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering ...

, later receiving an MBA degree from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...

. Young served in the

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as a second lieutenant from 1954 to 1956. In 1958 he joined Hewlett-Packard, rising to the post of vice president in 1968. He was elected executive vice president and a director in 1974. Young succeeded William Hewlett as president of Hewlett-Packard in 1977, receiving the titles of chief operating officer in 1977 and chief executive officer in 1978. He was elected a director of

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in 1985. Upon the merger with

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in 2000, he became a director of Chevron Texaco, serving until 2003. Having had a long association with competitiveness issues, he chaired President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness and in 1986 founded the

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, serving as chairman until 1990. Young served on President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1993 to 2000. Young retired in October 1992 as president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard and was succeeded in both posts by

Lewis E. Platt Lewis Emmett Platt (April 11, 1941 – September 8, 2005) was an American businessman and corporate director, who was chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard. Personal life and education Platt was born in Johnson C ...

. In 1995 he was elected a director of Novell, serving as acting chairman from August 1996 to April 1997 and as vice chairman until 2001. Currently, Young is a director of Affymetrix, Inc., Vermillion, Inc. (formerly Ciphbergen Biosystems, Inc.), Fluidigm Corporation, Nanosys Inc., and Perelgen Sciences, Inc. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In addition to Chevron and Novell, he formerly served on the boards of

, International Integration, Inc., Lucent Technology, Smith Kline Beecham, and Agere Systems.

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