Rank
7
Meg Whitman
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 02: Meg Whitman attends the Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman In Conversation With LinkedIn Executive Editor Dan Roth at LinkedIn Studios on November 2, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)Dave Kotinsky—Getty Images
- TitleCEO
- AffiliationHewlett Packard Enterprise
- Age61
Nearly two years after cleaving HP in half in the biggest split by revenue in corporate history, Whitman has continued trimming divisions off the piece she still runs. That’s meant that sales for HPE, which specializes in servers and networking systems, are still decreasing, even as its profits have started growing again. Still, five years since unveiling her plan to rescue HP, Whitman—who was a finalist for the Uber CEO job—is now under pressure to deliver on the promised results, namely revenue growth.
Read our profile of Whitman from our Oct. 1, 2017 issue titled "HPE’s Meg Whitman Won’t Be Uber’s CEO. But She Could Be the First Female President."Personal Information
| Previous Rank | 7 |
| Newcomer? | - |
Company Financials (2016, or most recently completed fiscal year)
| Revenues ($M) | 50,123 |
| Profits ($M) | 3,161 |
| Market Value as of 9/14/17 ($M) | 21814.2 |