HP has announced that it has appointed The Walt Disney Company head of human resources John M. Renfro to lead human resources for the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) of HP.

Mr Renfro will serve as vice-president and report to Marcela Perez de Alonso, executive vice-president of human resources for HP, and to Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice-president of IPG. He will be responsible for improving organisational effectiveness, developing high-performance teams and delivering world-class HR programmes for IPG, which reported revenue of $25 billion in the financial year 2005.

Mr Renfro, 46, is joining HP after four years at Disney, where he served as senior vice-president and chief human resources officer reporting to Robert Iger, president and chief executive officer. Previously, he ran the human resources function at Gateway and Zenith, and held senior HR positions at Ameritech and A.C. Nielsen, a division of Dun & Bradstreet.