David Packard By Maaz Aqeel (BBA hons.)

1. Presented To:
Sir Asif Tanveer
Presented By:
Syed Muhammad Maaz Aqeel
275 BBA (Hons.) R-2 8th

2. PRESENTATION ON:
DAVID PACKARD

3. David Packard (1912-1996) was the co-founder and a
longtime executive officer of Hewlett-Packard
Company, a leading manufacturer of electronic
measuring devices, calculators, and computers. He
also served as deputy secretary of defense under
President Richard Nixon and was a major benefactor
to many philanthropic organizations.

4. EARLY LIFE:
 David Packard was born September 7, 1912, in Pueblo,
Colorado, the son of a lawyer and a high school teacher.
 He attended Centennial High School, where early on he
showed an interest in science, engineering, sports, and
leadership.
 After graduating from his local public high school, Packard
enrolled as an electrical engineering student at Stanford
University in California.
 There he met William Hewlett, a fellow student who
shared his interest in electronics and the out-of-doors.
 In college he was a varsity athlete and president of his
fraternity. He received a B.A. with honors in 1934.

5. EARLY CAREER:
 Packard went to Schenectady, New York, to work in the
vacuum tube engineering department of General Electric
Company.
 He returned to Stanford in 1938 to study the theory of the
vacuum tube.
 That year he also married Lucile Salter of San Francisco,
whom he had met at Stanford.

6. HEWLETT – PACKARD:
 In 1939, Packard and Hewlett established Hewlett-
Packard (HP) in Packard's garage with an initial capital
investment of $538.
 Packard mentions in his book The HP Way that the name
Hewlett-Packard was determined by the flip of a coin: HP,
rather than PH.
 Packard won the coin toss but named their electronics
manufacturing company as “Hewlett-Packard company”.
 Their first product was an audio frequency oscillator sold
to Walt Disney Studios for use on the soundtrack
of Fantasia.

7.  The company, where Packard proved to be an
expert administrator and Hewlett provided many
technical innovations, grew into the world's largest
producer of electronic testing and measurement
devices.
 It also became a major producer
of calculators, computers, and laser and ink jet
printers.

8. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT:
 Upon entering office in 1969, President Richard M.
Nixon appointed Packard U.S. Deputy Secretary of
Defense under Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird.
 Packard resigned in December 1971 and returned to
Hewlett-Packard in 1972 as Chairman of the Board.
 While serving in the Department of Defense, he brought
concepts of resource management used in business to the
military, as well as establishing the Defense Systems
Management College.