Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)

HP's Director Independence Standards

        In determining independence, the Board reviews whether directors have any material relationship with HP. The Board considers all relevant facts and circumstances. In assessing the materiality of a director's relationship to HP, the Board considers the issues from the director's standpoint and from the perspective of the persons or organizations with which the director has an affiliation and is guided by the standards set forth below. The Board reviews commercial, industrial, banking, consulting, legal, accounting, charitable and familial relationships. An independent director must not have any material relationship with HP, either directly or as a partner, shareholder or officer of an organization that has a relationship with HP, or any relationship that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director.

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        A director will not be considered independent in the following circumstances:

(1)

The director is, or has been in the past three years, an employee of HP, or an immediate family member of the director is, or has been in the past three years, an executive officer of HP.



(2)

The director has received, or has an immediate family member who has received, direct compensation from HP in excess of $60,000 in any 12 month period in the past three years, other than compensation for board service, compensation received by the director's immediate family member for service as a non-executive employee of HP, and pension or other forms of deferred compensation for prior service with HP that is not contingent on continued service.



(3)

(A) The director or an immediate family member is a current partner of the firm that is HP's internal or external auditor; (B) the director is a current employee of such a firm; (C) the director has an immediate family member who is a current employee of such a firm and who participates in the firm's audit, assurance or tax compliance (but not tax planning) practice; or (D) the director or an immediate family member was within the last three years (but is no longer) a partner or employee of such a firm and personally worked on HP's audit within that time.



(4)

The director or an immediate family member is, or has been in the past three years, employed as an executive officer of another company where any of HP's present executive officers at the same time serves or has served on that company's compensation committee.



(5)

The director is a current employee, or an immediate family member is a current executive officer, of a company that has made payments to, or received payments from, HP for property or services in an amount which, in any of the last three fiscal years, exceeds the greater of $1 million, or 2% of the recipient's consolidated gross revenues.



(6)

The director is, or an immediate family member is, a partner in, or a controlling shareholder or an executive officer of, any organization to which HP made, or from which HP received, payments for property or services in the current or any of the past three fiscal years that exceed the greater of 5% of the recipient's consolidated gross revenues for that year, or $200,000.

        For these purposes, an "immediate family" member includes a director's spouse, parents, children, siblings, mother and father-in-law, sons and daughters-in-law, brothers and sisters-in-law, and anyone who shares the director's home.