Sun's old CFO becomes Sun's new CFO

Mike Lehman, Sun Microsystems' chief financial officer from 1998 to 2002, is coming out of retirement to replace Steve McGowan in the post, the server and software company said Tuesday.

"Having now tried retirement briefly, I find that I like being involved in leading change and driving the business more directly," Lehman, who is 55, said in a statement. He returns to his old job on Wednesday and has resigned from Sun's board.

And McGowan, instead of retiring as planned last October, will become executive vice president of finance. "He will be with us for the foreseeable future," Sun spokeswoman Stephanie Von Allmen said. "He's been convinced to stay on as EVP of finance."

Though the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has been unable to return to consistent growth and profitability, Lehman said the arrival of new server, software and storage products "leads me to believe Sun can deliver more value to customers than HP, IBM and others combined."

Sun President Jonathan Schwartz hailed Lehman's move. "It is great to see a senior statesman like Mike join the team," he said in a statement.

Related changes also took place at Sun's board. Lehman resigned from his position there at the same time Robert Finocchio joined. Finocchio, a former chief executive of database company Informix and former president of networking company 3Com Systems, also is on the board of Altera, CaseCentral, Echelon, Intransa and Silver-Peak Systems.

Although Finocchio won't take Lehman's role as chairman of the board's audit committee, he will be a member of that committee and qualifies as a financial expert in auditing, Sun said.

[dargon19888]

Finochio on the BoD for Sun? Bad news... :-(

Sorry to say, but Bobby boy was one of the fools that helped to kill Informix. Sure Phil did the evil deed of cooking the books, but Bobby and his hand picked successor Dexmier didn't know what they were doing and it showed.

But hey, what do I know? ;-) Just ask Bobby and Dex....

-G

[dargon19888]

Finochio on the BoD for Sun? Bad news... :-(

Sorry to say, but Bobby boy was one of the fools that helped to kill Informix. Sure Phil did the evil deed of cooking the books, but Bobby and his hand picked successor Dexmier didn't know what they were doing and it showed.

But hey, what do I know? ;-) Just ask Bobby and Dex....

-G

Didn't Ken Lay do this at Enron?

You know, come out of retirement is an ill-fated
attempt to stave of collapse?

Looks like a bad sign to me. . .

Didn't Ken Lay do this at Enron?

You know, come out of retirement is an ill-fated
attempt to stave of collapse?

Looks like a bad sign to me. . .

Didn't Ken Lay do this at Enron?

You know, come out of retirement in an ill-fated
attempt to stave off collapse?

Looks like a bad sign to me. . .

Didn't Ken Lay do this at Enron?

You know, come out of retirement in an ill-fated
attempt to stave off collapse?

Looks like a bad sign to me. . .