HP says its CEO Dion Weisler will step down and Enrique Lores, president of HP's imaging, printing, and solutions business, will become new CEO from November 1
KEY POINTS — HP CEO Dion Weisler will step down from the company “due to a family health matter,” HP announced Thursday.
Context & Ripple Effects
This appointment closes the loop opened by the 2015 HP split, which put Dion Weisler in charge of the PC-and-printer company while Meg Whitman took HP Enterprise. With Weisler stepping down for a family health matter, the board hands the top job to Enrique Lores, an imaging-and-printing chief who has spent decades inside HP.
The move mirrors the playbook across the split: HPE promoted insider Antonio Neri when Whitman stepped aside (that handover set the template). What follows years later is notable too — Lores' long tenure ultimately ends not at HP but with PayPal hiring him away, a move that reportedly blindsided HP's board into a rushed successor search.
First-order effects
- Enrique Lores takes HP's top job on November 1, shifting leadership weight toward the imaging-and-printing business he ran, while Dion Weisler exits citing a family health matter.
Second-order effects
- Both HP successor companies are now run by homegrown operators — Lores at HP Inc., Antonio Neri at HPE — reinforcing internal pipelines as the preferred succession route post-split.
Third-order effects
- A decades-long insider tenure cuts both ways: it gives continuity while it lasts, but when that leader finally leaves — as Lores eventually did for PayPal — the absence of an obvious successor leaves the board scrambling.
The trend: Post-split HP has cycled through long-tenured insider CEOs whose eventual departures increasingly feed cross-company executive churn rather than internal handoffs.