Palo Alto Networks lured Chief Executive Mark McLaughlin away from publicly-traded VeriSign Inc.
The home side fell behind on 23 minutes when defender Mark McLaughlin headed into his own net.
Mark McLaughlin and Martin Canning were dropped from the Hamilton line-up as Reid looked for fresh impetus in defence.
In August 2011 the board brought in Mark McLaughlin, an executive at security firm Verisign, to be its Wall Street-friendly CEO.
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Mark McLaughlin headed a Marco Paixao corner just wide, then Saints' Graham Carey tested Tomas Cerny with a powerful late free-kick.
BBC: Alex Neil (r) and Steven Thomson in action at St Mirren Park
For example, it recently snagged Mark McLaughlin as its new CEO.
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Hamilton started to take the initiative and Mark McLaughlin was unlucky to see his header go over Michael Fraser's bar when he was first to a Stevenson corner.
The home support appealed for a penalty after 57 minutes when Wright fell in the box under pressure from Mark McLaughlin, but referee Euan Norris waved play on.
And the Dons' misery was complete when referee Alan Muir turned down Tommy Wright's appeal for a penalty after the striker claimed Mark McLaughlin had handled in the box.
Moments later the diminutive Imrie headed over from Brian Easton's cross and, as Accies applied a stranglehold on their hosts, Mark McLaughlin did likewise from a 35th-minute Flavio Paixao corner.
Accies made four changes following their midweek defeat by St Johnstone, with Mark McLaughlin, Lee Kilday, Marco Paixao and Jon Rougledge replacing Jim McAlister, James Chambers, Ziggy Gordon and Damien Casalinuovo.
Mark McLaughlin got too much on his header when Marco Paixao swung in a right-footed corner and Gallacher would have been relieved to see the ball flash a yard wide of his post.
BBC: Alex Neil (r) and Steven Thomson in action at St Mirren Park
He points out that the company since August has been run by Chairman and co-founder Jim Bidzos, who took over after former CEO Mark McLaughlin left to take the top job at Palo Alto Networks.
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The Accies defence then somehow managed to escape going a goal down after Paddy McCourt cut the ball back across the Hamilton goal-line after a mazy run, but Mark McLaughlin blocked the shot from Forrest.
As Hamilton pressed for an equaliser Smith did well to block Mark McLaughlin's close-range volley from Lyle's free-kick and, as half-time approached, Shaun Hutchinson cleared the ball off the goal-line after Lyle had chipped the keeper.
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