Cathie's biography

Catherine A. (Cathie) Lesjak has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of HP since January 1, 2007. Lesjak served as interim chief executive officer of HP from August 2010 through October 2010.

As a 24-year veteran of the company, Lesjak has held a broad range of financial leadership roles across HP. Before being named CFO, Lesjak served as senior vice president and treasurer, responsible for managing the company’s worldwide cash, debt, foreign exchange, capital structure, risk management and benefits plan administration. Earlier in her career at HP, she managed financial operations for Enterprise Marketing and Solutions and the Software Global Business Unit. Before that, she was group controller for HP's Software Solutions Organization and managed HP's global channel credit risk as controller and credit manager for the Commercial Customer Organization.

Lesjak has a bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford University and a master of business degree in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.