Meg Whitman Biography
Meg Whitman, an American business executive and former candidate for governor of California, serves as the US ambassador to Kenya. She sits on the boards of General Motors and Procter & Gamble, respectively. Whitman previously served as Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s president and CEO. She served as the company’s CEO from the time Quibi was founded in August 2018 until it was shut down in December 2020.
Meg Whitman Age
Whitman is 66 years old as of 2022. She was born on 4 August 1956 in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States. She celebrates her birthday on 4 August.
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Meg Whitman Family
Margaret Cushing and Hendricks Hallett Whitman, Jr. were the parents of Whitman when she was born. Her great-great-great-grandfather, Elnathan Whitman, was a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Whitman is also a great-great-granddaughter of Illinois U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell through her father. She is a great-great-granddaughter of General Henry S. Huidekoper and a great-great-granddaughter of historian and jurist Munroe Smith on her mother’s side. Adelaide Chatfield-Taylor, who was born Adelaide Chatfield-Taylor, was the sister of economist Wayne Chatfield-Taylor and the daughter of writer Hobart Chatfield-Taylor and his wife, Rose Farwell Chatfield-Taylor.
Meg Whitman Education
Whitman completed his three years of high school at Cold Spring Harbor High School in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, in 1974. In her journals, she says she was in the main 10 of her group. She went to Princeton University to study math and science because she wanted to be a doctor. However, she switched to studying economics after spending a summer selling advertisements for the magazine Business Today. She completed an 83-page senior thesis titled “The Marketing of American Consumer Products in Western Europe” and earned an honors A.B. in economics from Princeton University in 1977. In 1979, Whitman went on to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Meg Whitman Husband
Whitman is married to Griffith Harsh IV, the Chair of Neurosurgery at the University of California, Davis, and a former Stanford University Medical Center employee. They have two children. She has been a resident of Atherton, California, since March 1998.
Meg Whitman Net Worth | Forbes
Whitman has an estimated net worth of $3.5 billion. With a net worth of $1.3 billion in 2010, she was the fifth wealthiest woman in California. She spent $144 million of her own money and $178.5 million from donors, making her the second most wealthy political candidate in American history to spend money on a single election.
Meg Whitman Ambassador
On December 8, 2021, President Joe Biden designated Whitman to act as US representative to Kenya. On May 24, 2022, the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on her nomination. On June 9, 2022, the committee approved her nomination. Her nomination was approved by voice vote in the Senate on July 14, 2022. On August 5, 2022, she presented President Uhuru Kenyatta with her credentials.
Meg Whitman House
Whitman bought a condo in West Hollywood for $6.5 million. According to the listing that was posted on Monday by Josh and Matthew Altman of Douglas Elliman, the residence is on the 24th floor of the 31-story Sierra Towers. It has 2,300 square feet of living space, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a fully equipped kitchen with marble countertops and fine cabinetry.
According to property records and published reports, the Sierra Towers is a luxury condominium building whose celebrity residents have included David Geffen, Cher, and Elton John since it opened in 1966.
Meg Whitman Political Position
Whitman supported both Mitt Romney and John McCain’s presidential campaigns in 2008. She co-chaired the finance committee for Chris Christie’s 2016 presidential campaign, which later endorsed Donald Trump. Whitman spoke in support of Joe Biden at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Whitman supported Mitt Romney in the Republican primaries in 2012, and she was mentioned as a possible cabinet member in his administration.
She was the first female governor of California and only the third woman in history to run for governor. Her campaign was mostly self-funded, and she spent over $144 million on it. She was defeated in the 2010 election by Jerry Brown. Whitman had not voted in 28 years, according to The Sacramento Bee in 2010.
Meg Whitman eBay
In March 1998, when eBay had 30 employees and approximately $4 million in revenue, Whitman joined the company. Despite initially declining the position, she led the company to approximately 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue during her tenure as CEO from 2008 to 2008. When Whitman first joined eBay, the site was a straightforward black-and-white webpage with courier font. The website went down for eight hours on her first day. She started by creating a new executive team because she found the website to be confusing. Whitman divided the business into 23 different business categories to organize it. After that, she assigned executives to each, which included approximately 35,000 subcategories. PayPal became a $1.5 billion eBay wholly owned subsidiary in 2002, shortly after its initial public offering. Whitman made a number of significant adjustments to her management team in 2004. PayPal was taken over by Jeff Jordan, the international operations were taken over by Matt Bannick, and the United States operations were taken over by Bill Cobb. The United States logo is colorful, and each international website has its own branding.
In March 2005, Whitman appointed John J. Donahoe as president of eBay Marketplaces, which is in charge of all aspects of eBay’s global e-commerce businesses. In September 2005, eBay acquired Skype for $4.1 billion in cash and stock under Whitman’s leadership. In 2009, eBay sold Skype to a group of investors led by Silver Lake Partners at a valuation of $2.75 billion. In 2011, after the first papers for a possible IPO were filed, Microsoft purchased Skype for US$8.5 billion. In June 2007, Whitman allegedly pushed her subordinate, communications employee Young Mi Kim, while she was preparing for an interview with Reuters. Later, eBay admitted that it had overpaid. Whitman related the incident, “Tensions can surface in any high-pressure working environment.” “Yes, we had an unfortunate incident, but we resolved it in a way that speaks well for her and eBay,” Kim added. A $200,000 settlement resulted in the matter’s resolution.
In November 2007, Whitman resigned from his position as CEO of eBay, but he remained on the company’s board and advised the company’s new CEO until the end of 2008. In 2008, she was inducted into the United States Business Hall of Fame. For her work at eBay, Whitman has received numerous accolades and awards. She was included in Fortune magazine’s list of the top five most powerful women on multiple occasions. She was named one of the 50 faces that shaped the decade by the Financial Times, and the Harvard Business Review ranked her as the eighth-best-performing CEO of the past decade.