Meg Whitman Biography

Meg Whitman is an American business executive. Meg is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise as well as the Chairwoman of HP Inc. Meg served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company where she was Vice President of Strategic Planning and as an executive for DreamWorks Procter & Gamble and Hasbro. Meg served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from 1998 to 2008. During her 10 years with the company she oversaw its expansion from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue. In 2014 Meg was named 20th in Forbes List of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World and she was cited by The New York Times as among the women most likely to become the first female President of the United States. In 2009 Meg announced her candidacy for Governor of California becoming the third woman in a 20-year period to run for the office and won the Republican primary in June 2010. The fourth wealthiest woman in the state of California with a net worth of $1.3 billion in 2010 she spent more of her own money on the race than any other political candidate spent on a single election in American history spending $144 million total of her own fortune and $178.5 million including donors. Meg was defeated by Jerry Brown in the 2010 California gubernatorial election.

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