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Meg Whitman

Personal data
Date of birthAugust 4, 1956(age 54)
Place of birthCold Spring Harbor (Long Island) New York, U.S.
Birth nameMargaret Cushing Whitman
Political partyRepublican
SpouseGriffith Rutherford Harsh IV
neurosurgeon
ChildrenGriffith Rutherford Harsh V
William Whitman Harsh
ResidenceAtherton, California, U.S.
Alma materPrinceton University (economics, 1977)
Harvard Business School (MBA, 1979)
OccupationFormer President and CEO of eBay
ReligionPresbyterian

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Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American businesswoman and politician. A native of Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. Whitman served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company where she was vice president of strategic planning throughout the 1980s. In the 1990s she served as an executive for DreamWorks, Procter & Gamble, and Hasbro. Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from 1998 to 2008.

During her ten years with the company she oversaw expansion from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue when she stepped down.

In February 2009 Whitman announced her candidacy for Governor of California, becoming the third woman in a twenty year period to run for the office. She won the Republican primary in June 2010. The fourth wealthiest woman in the state of California with a net worth of $1.3 billion in 2010, she has spent more of her own money on her candidacy than any other self-funded political candidate in U.S. history.

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Whitman Settles with Housekeeper for Chump Change - Fox News Tweet this news
Fox News---Meg Whitman's- price tag on her gubernatorial campaign? $140 million. Settling with a formerly trusted employee for the price of a used car? Priceless. ... - Date : Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:21:00 GMT+00:00
Nurses' union backed Meg Whitman's former housekeeper - Los Angeles Times Tweet this news
Los Angeles Times---...- endorsed Jerry Brown, quietly helped former housekeeper Nicandra Diaz Santillan speak out against -Meg Whitman- during this year's gubernatorial campaign. ... - Date : Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:44:47 GMT+00:00
Split Personality - Santa Barbara Independent Tweet this news
Santa Barbara Independent--FUN WITH NUMBERS: Final state spending reports on the just-completed campaign have yet to be filed, but it's already clear that -Meg Whitman-, the defeated ... - Date : Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:08:37 GMT+00:00
UC Berkeley -- stiffed by Meg Whitman's strategists -- has invited Whitman ... - San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Tweet this news
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)--Now that -Meg Whitman's- campaign strategists insist they won't attend a major UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies seminar to dissect the 2010 ... - Date : Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:23:10 GMT+00:00
Why Jews Vote Democratic - Redux - Town Hall Tweet this news
Town Hall---Meg Whitman-, the Republican candidate for Governor, was the first to accept, followed by Carly Fiorina, who was running for the US Senate. ... - Date : Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:10:05 GMT+00:00
A Path with Heart: Why Whitman Lost (the Latino Vote) - Hispanic LA Tweet this news
Hispanic LA--I have heard many theories on why -Meg Whitman- did not win California's gubernatorial election: she failed to ... - Date : Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:37:54 GMT+00:00
Whitman targets Bay Area voters with ad attacking Brown - Los Angeles Times Tweet this news
Los Angeles Times--Republican gubernatorial nominee -Meg Whitman- has begun airing a fifth attack ad against Democratic rival Jerry Brown, ... - Date : Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:02:07 GMT+00:00
Reviving California's economy: Meg Whitman versus Jerry Brown - Los Angeles Times Tweet this news
Los Angeles Times--For all their differences, -Meg Whitman- and Jerry Brown agree on one thing: California needs an industrial policy. For half a century, ... - Date : Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:01:37 GMT+00:00
Whitman scores business group's endorsement - Legal News Line Tweet this news
Legal News Line--SACRAMENTO (Legal Newsline) - California gubernatorial candidate -Meg Whitman- announced late last week she received the endorsement of ... - Date : Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:05:36 GMT+00:00
How Much Of Meg Whitman's $91 Million In Campaign Funds Are Dirty Money? - California Progress Report Tweet this news
California Progress Report--eBay acquired PayPal in 2002, on -Meg's- watch, and it has become a very controversial online payment system for millions around the world. ... - Date : Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:20:54 GMT+00:00

Business positions
Preceded by
Jeffrey Skoll
Chief Executive Officer of eBay
1998 - 2008
Succeeded by
John Donahoe
President of eBay
1998 - 2008
Party political offices
Preceded by
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Former Republican nominee for Governor of California
2010
Succeeded by
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