Most Powerful Women

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Meg Whitman

Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman stands outside the New York Stock Exchange. CREDIT: Eric Draper
Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman stands outside the New York Stock Exchange. CREDIT: Eric DraperEric Draper
  • Title
    CEO and President
  • Affiliation
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Age
    60

Having executed one of the highest-profile tech separations in corporate history—HP’s October 2015 split into HP Enterprise and HP Inc.—Whitman is now streamlining HP Enterprise, the $52 billion storage business she runs (she also chairs HP Inc.]. But Whitman isn’t done. In May she said that HP Enterprise would merge its IT services unit with Computer Sciences in 2017 to form yet another new company—which recently announced it was selling its software unit for $8.8 billion. The one-time Republican gubernatorial candidate is actively supporting Clinton for President.

Personal Information

Previous Rank7
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Company Financials (2015, or most recently completed fiscal year)

Revenues ($B)254
Profits ($B)246
Market Value as of 8/26/16 ($M)36192