Ms. Margaret C. Whitman is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Dropbox, Inc., an Independent Director at Procter & Gamble Co., a Chief Executive Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP and a Chief Executive Officer at NewTV.

She is on the Board of Directors at Dropbox, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co., Zaarly, Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., Immortals LLC, Teach For America, Inc. and The Nature Conservancy, Inc. Ms. Whitman was previously employed as an Independent Director by DXC Technology Co., an Independent Director by Zipcar, Inc., a Chairman by HP, Inc., a Chairman by eBay, Inc., a General Manager-Preschool Division by Hasbro, Inc., a President & Chief Executive Officer by IOS Brands Corp., a President & Chief Executive Officer by Florists' Transworld Delivery, Inc., a Vice President by Bain & Co., Inc., a Senior Vice President-Marketing by Disney Consumer Products, Inc., and a Partner by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC.

She also served on the board at SurveyMonkey, Inc., DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., Gap, Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., DW II Distribution Co. LLC and eBay Foundation.

She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive. She is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard. 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 10 years with the company, she oversaw its expansion from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue. In 2014, Whitman was named 20th in Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

In 2008, she was cited by The New York Times as among the women most likely to become the first female President of the United States. In February 2009, Whitman announced her candidacy for Governor of California, becoming the third woman in a 20-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 spent more of her own money on the race than any other political candidate spent on a single election in American history, spending $144 million total of her own fortune and $178.5 million including donors. Whitman lost to Jerry Brown in the November 2 election.

Early life and education

Whitman was born in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, the daughter of Margaret Cushing (née Goodhue) and Hendricks Hallett Whitman, Jr. Her patrilineal great-great-great-grandfather, Elnathan Whitman, was a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Through her father, she is also a gr

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