Enterprise hardware maker and consumer electronics giant Hewlett-Packard has appointed Marc Levin to the role of senior vice president and controller. He will officially begin to carry out his duties under the new title starting May 1.

Levin has been with HP for 24 years, a long tenure through which he has fulfilled several different positions within the company. Today he’s the senior vice president of Finance, and before that he worked in the company’s Global Sales and spinned off medical units. The latter is now known as Agilent Technologies.

As of next month he’ll be reporting directly to chief financial officer Cathie Lesjak, from the former seat of Jim Murrin – now senior vice president and general manager of End-User Workplace and Managed Network Services.

Hewlett-Packard has seen a lot of internal changes lately, and not just executive. Meg Whiteman is the current CEO of the technology titan, a relatively new addition to the ranks of the company herself, and she is busy at work getting HP back on the saddle. Whiteman has taken the task of adapting to the market, a project that will likely take her years rather than months, based on what we heard during the firm’s fourth quarter  earnings call.

This will take some aggressive long-term decision making on behalf of Hewlett-Packard’s management team, but at the present it’s coping with the loss of two execs.  Previously Dave Barr, the mastermind behind the lucrative LeftHand unit, quit his job in favor of a better offer from Nirvanix. Shortly after we learned that vice President of cloud computing Emil Sayegh resigned as well to assume the role of CEO at Coderho, a company with a background almost as noticeable  as its name.