Inducted 1999

Dean O. Morton was born in 1932 in Wichita, KS. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics from Kansas State University and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University.

Mr. Morton joined Hewlett-Packard in 1960 as a marketing trainee and subsequently served as marketing manager of the Frequency and Time Division. In 1965, he was named engineering manager of the Medical Electronics Division, and later became that division's general manager. Mr. Morton was elected a vice president in 1973, and a year later was appointed manager of the Medical Products Group in Waltham, MA. In 1977, he was elected an executive vice president and was named to oversee the company's operations in medical, analytical and component products.

In 1984, Mr. Morton was named chief operating officer, and in 1988, he became general manager of the Computer Business Organization and served as chairman of the company's Computer Business Executive Committee. When Hewlett-Packard realigned its computer-business activities in 1990, Mr. Morton was named to the Chief Executive Office.

Prior to his retirement in 1992, Mr. Morton was executive vice president, chief operating officer and director of the company. He and John Young comprised HP's Chief Executive Office and were responsible for overall company management.

Mr. Morton has been active on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards. Included in those are the likes of ALZA Corporation, BEA Systems, The Clorox Company and KLA-Tencor Corporation. He is on the Board of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and is chairman of the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits.

In 1992, the Harvard Business School honored Mr. Morton with the Alumni Achievement Award for outstanding professional accomplishments.