 Wayman is a Chicago native.He attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in science engineering and a Master of Business Administration.Robert Wayman joined the Hewlett-Packard Company in 1969 as a cost accountant at its Loveland, Colorado office, after a few years he moved to the company’s headquarters at Palo Alto, California, where he held a number of finance positions before he was appointed as the company’s CFO in 1984, he then reported to former CEO John Young.