Meg Whitman is a lot of things among which a successful business executive takes center stage. The Harvard Business School alum has served as President and CEO of eBay and Hewett-Packard Enterprise. She is currently president of Quibi, a new smartphone video streaming platform founded by Jeffery Katzenberg.
A business expert, Whitman used her acumen and vast experience in the tech world to turn things around at eBay, where she oversaw the company’s revenue growth from $4 million to $8 billion, and the growth the number of employees increased from 30 to 15,000 people.
Politically, Meg Whitman is a member of the United States Republican Party and a candidate for Governor of California in 2010, under the Republican platform, but was defeated by former Governor Jerry Brown of the Democratic Party. This loss resulted in a huge loss of approximately $140 million in personal wealth.
Biography, education
She is an American national who was born on August 4, 1956, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Meg was named Margaret Cushing Whitman at birth. She is the last child of Hendricks Hallett Whitman Jr (father) and Margaret Cushing (mother). Her father was a successful businessman while her mother was a housewife. During World War II, his mother was an aircraft and truck mechanic. Meg’s siblings are Anne Whitman (sister) and Hendricks Hallett Whitman III (brother). She was born with a birth defect called dysplasia which was corrected using a rigid metal corset until she was 3 years old. As a child, she was an enthusiastic athlete who played tennis, lacrosse and competitive swimming.
Meg Whitman attended Cold Spring Harbor High School in Cold Spring Habour, New York, between 1971 and 1974. She then enrolled at Princeton University with the intention of pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor, but changed majoring in economics after spending a summer selling advertisements. for a magazine. She graduated with an honors degree in economics in 1977. Meg Whitman then went to Havard Business School, where she earned an MBA in 1979. In 2017, the veteran was awarded an honorary doctorate by Carnegie Mellon University.
Meg Whitman began her business career in 1979 at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio as a brand manager. She joined Bain & Company’s San Francisco office as a consultant, then was promoted to vice president from 1981 to 1989. In 1989, she was recruited by the Walt Disney Company to serve as vice president. -president of strategic planning for two years. From 1992 to 1995, she was Senior Vice President of Florist Transworld Delivery. Meg Whitman left Florist Transworld Delivery for Hasbro, where she remained until 1998.
Son travail en tant que PDG d’eBay a pris son envol en 1998. Là, elle a fait son premier milliard et son règne en tant que PDG a duré une décennie. Elle a ensuite rejoint Hewett-Packard Enterprise en tant que PDG et présidente jusqu’à sa démission en 2017. En 2018, Meg Whitman a été embauchée par Jeffery Katzenberg en tant que PDG de Quibi, poste qu’elle a occupé jusqu’à présent.
In 2018, Meg Whitman was ranked by Forbes as one of the most influential women in the world in the 20th position. His deep understanding of brand building, along with his understanding of consumer technology and his previous accomplishments as a business executive, led Jeffery Katzenberg to offer him the position of CEO of his new company, 5 minutes later. his announcement of his resignation as CEO of Hewett-Packard Enterprise in 2017.
husband and children
She married on June 7, 1980 to Dr. Griffith Rutherford Harsh IV. He is a brain surgeon and professor of neurosurgery at Stanford. They met at Princeton University during her sophomore year. Meg Whitman and her husband have a home in Atherton, California. The couple’s union is blessed with two sons, Griffith Rutherford Harsh V and his younger brother William Harsh. Just like their mother, Griffith Rutherford Harsh V and William Harsh attended Princeton University and gained a reputation as a billionaire.
Net value
Meg Whitman is undoubtedly one of the best in the business world and her portfolio speaks volumes about the success she has achieved so far. She is on the Forbes list of billionaires in 2019 with a net worth of 3.5 billion.
The billionaire has notably invested a lot in charities.