Meg Whitman (eBay)

Meg Whitman (eBay)

Introduction

Meg Whitman is an energetic and talented entrepreneur. Her success story is a powerful example for empowerment of women. Meg Whitman CEO of a large online auction eBay. Meg Whitman was born into a wealthy family of Long Island in New York. She is third and last child of the family, her father is a financial investor and her mother a housewife.

Personal Background

Meg Whitman was born on August 4, 1956, in Long Island (New York) - in the family, and Margaret Hendricks Hallett Whitman. Meg studied at the Cold Spring Harbor High School. After that, she received the prestigious bachelor's degree in economics, graduating from Princeton University (Kopytoff, 2008). By the way, she was not only a diligent student, but also an active social worker, and she gradually learned the intricacies of business (for example, was the organization of Business Today). In the 1979th year, Meg Whitman (Margaret Cushing «Meg» Whitman) completed her studies at Harvard Business School (Harvard Business School) and was awarded another degree of Master.

Professional Background

She began her career in 1979 at Procter & Gamble, and in 1981, she moved to San Francisco to work for the consulting firm Bain, the firm eventually becoming vice president. In 1989, she joined the Walt Disney Company as vice president of marketing and is dedicated to developing products. In 1992, she followed her husband in Boston and became head of the Stride Rite Group before taking the direction of Florists Transworld Delivery Group, the world's largest producer of floral products. She then launched a website selling online destination of American Florists. In 1997, she became head of the division of preschool toy manufacturer Hasbro before being called in 1998 by Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder, to run her company based in California. Meg Whitman is going to get the company of 30 employees on American soil to the level of multinational employing 11,000 people. Fortune magazine dedicated to "the first businesswoman of the world" in 2004 for making eBay "the largest online trading site of the world's most valued brands and Internet Company with the fastest growth of history ".

According to Forbes, her fortune was estimated at 1.3 billion in 2007. She also participated on the steering committee of Procter & Gamble, as well as that of DreamWorks Animation. Whitman resigned from the leadership of the eBay in November 2007, but remained on the board and ...