Diebold Inc.’s board of directors today named former Hewlett-Packard Co. executive Andy W. Mattes as the company’s new president and chief executive officer.
Mattes also was named board director and takes over immediately.
Henry D.G. Wallace, Diebold’s executive chairman of the board, will assume the non-executive chairman role effective Aug. 15.
Mattes also has experience with Siemens AG and most recently was senior vice president, global strategic partnerships at Violin Memory, a manufacturer of flash memory computer storage systems.