Meg Whitman to Step Down as Hewlett Packard Enterprise C.E.O.
- 6 years ago
Meg Whitman to Step Down as Hewlett Packard Enterprise C.E.O.
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise that has emerged, Ms. Whitman said this year, will be a streamlined company with “a crystal-clear mission” to
help its business customers achieve the payoff from new technologies, including cloud computing, data analytics and the internet of things.
Ms. Whitman went with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which took the business software and hardware operations of the parent company.
Meg Whitman is stepping down as chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise six years after joining its corporate predecessor
and leading a turnaround effort that split the Silicon Valley corporate icon in two.
In a $13.5 billion transaction completed this year, for example, Hewlett Packard Enterprise combined its services business with
Computer Sciences Corporation to create a separate company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, called DXC Technology.
She cut costs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which sells computer servers
and data storage, networking, software and technology services to corporate customers, and pursued partnerships and deals to compete with larger rivals like IBM, Oracle, Cisco and Dell.
Ms. Whitman was one of the three finalists to succeed Travis Kalanick as chief executive at Uber this year after he left the company, which he co-founded, over concerns
that his leadership had helped it become a toxic workplace.
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise that has emerged, Ms. Whitman said this year, will be a streamlined company with “a crystal-clear mission” to
help its business customers achieve the payoff from new technologies, including cloud computing, data analytics and the internet of things.
Ms. Whitman went with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which took the business software and hardware operations of the parent company.
Meg Whitman is stepping down as chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise six years after joining its corporate predecessor
and leading a turnaround effort that split the Silicon Valley corporate icon in two.
In a $13.5 billion transaction completed this year, for example, Hewlett Packard Enterprise combined its services business with
Computer Sciences Corporation to create a separate company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, called DXC Technology.
She cut costs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which sells computer servers
and data storage, networking, software and technology services to corporate customers, and pursued partnerships and deals to compete with larger rivals like IBM, Oracle, Cisco and Dell.
Ms. Whitman was one of the three finalists to succeed Travis Kalanick as chief executive at Uber this year after he left the company, which he co-founded, over concerns
that his leadership had helped it become a toxic workplace.