Mark Hurd has been the leader of HP since 2004, yet he still likes to tell anecdotes about his relative low profiled compared to his predecessor Carly Fiorina (pictured).
Hurd was present at TUCON 2007, TIBCO's annual user meeting in San Francisco, where he gave a keynote presentation about how HP is virtualizing its internal IT infrastructure to achieve new efficiencies.

Hurd pointed out that HP now has revenues of more than $90 billion, and has quietly slipped past IBM as the world's largest technology provider. Hurd says the company is poised to reach $100 billion in revenue within a few years, and noted that "at even 90% efficiency, there are $9 billion in expenses that we can still try to wring out of our operations."

Despite this success, Hurd told the following anecdote at the beginning of his TUCON presentation.

"I was attending an event last week, and got into a cab at the airport."

"The driver said, hey, aren't you the President of Hewlett-Packard?"

"I said I was."

"He then said, who's the CEO of the company now?

"I said, well, that's me as well. I have both titles."

"Nah, the CEO is somebody famous!"