Eckhard Pfeiffer (born 1941) is a German-born businessman who served as president and chief executive of the computer maker Compaq from 1991 to 1999. Born in Lauban, then in Germany and now Lubań in Poland, he graduated from a commercial vocational school in 1963 and later earned an MBA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He began as a financial controller at Texas Instruments in Munich, then joined Compaq and built its European operations from scratch, opening the first overseas office in Munich in 1984. In 1991 a boardroom change led by chairman Ben Rosen replaced co-founder Rod Canion with Pfeiffer as chief executive. Under him Compaq entered the retail market with the Presario, took part in price wars with rivals and by 1994 had overtaken Apple Computer and IBM as the top personal computer maker. Time named him to its 1998 Cyber Elite list.
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