SAN FRANCISCO/NEW dynasty (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co on weekday appointed 3 big-name administrators, together with former Microsoft corporation software package chief Raymond Ozzie and former McDonald's corporation Chief govt James Skinner, because the troubled computer maker searches for a boss and addresses commanding stumbles of past years.

The computer maker, that has been making an attempt to strengthen its board once years of leadership calamities, conjointly named Robert aeronaut, former corporate executive of Liberty Media corporation and aforesaid it'll continue checking out additional administrators. it's conjointly longing for a permanent nonexecutive chairman to succeed Ralph Whitworth, WHO holds the position on AN interim basis.

Monday's appointments increase the dimensions of HP's board to twelve from 9.

Chief officer 1000000 Whitman is attempting to show around HP's operations, whereas Whitworth, UN agency heads activist hedge fund relative Investors, secure board changes once he took the task in Gregorian calendar month. Previous Chairman Ray Lane resigned because the chairman when he came under attack from shareholders for his role in HP's fatal acquisition of British software system company Autonomy Plc. Lane remains a director at horsepower.

HP's leadership has been in tumult since the 2010 departure of business executive Mark Hurd over harassment allegations, that he has denied. Current business executive Whitman took the highest job in Sept 2011 when precursor Leo Apotheker's temporary stint, that was marked by slashed earnings forecasts and a plunge within the company's share value.

Lane conjointly overhauled the board in early 2011, months when he joined.

In 2012, horsepower had to require a multibillion-dollar writedown for its takeover of Autonomy, enraging investors. The deal capped a disruptive decade for the corporate that enclosed the 2006 "pretexting" scandal, that semiconductor diode to the resignation of then-Chairwoman Patricia Dunn.

Monday's appointment of well-known administrators to HP's board gave the impression to be an endeavor to answer shareholders' long cries for a stronger board.

OZZIE'S POST-PC WORLD VISION

Ozzie, the computer code guru whom Microsoft founder computer scientist selected because the company's big-picture thinker, left the corporate in 2010 to start out Talko opposition, that focuses on mobile communications applications and services.

When outward-bound from Microsoft, Ozzie urged Microsoft to maneuver on from its Windows and workplace roots and picture a "post-PC world" of easy, international internet devices.

The addition of the author of the currently celebrated "Internet Services Disruption" memoranda that he evangelized now-common cloud computing -- and that he wrote shortly when connexion Microsoft in 2005 -- comes as H.P. is making an attempt to regulate to shrinking laptop sales. China's Lenovo cluster Ltd overtook H.P. because the world's prime laptop maker within the latest quarter.

Skinner was attributable with turning around McDonald's throughout his time as business executive from November 2004 till 2012 which company's share worth tripled throughout his tenure. he's conjointly chairman of pharmacy chain Walgreen Co .

Bennett can be a part of the finance and investment committee and its audit committee.

Ozzie can be a part of the technology committee and therefore the finance and investment committee. Skinner can be a part of committees governing audit, human resources and compensation, and governance.

HP shares were up twenty cents at $26.39 on the big apple exchange.