Meg Whitman quits HPE as its CEO

Meg Whitman the Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise has quit the company after serving it for close to six years. She is succeeded by the company president Antonio Neri who will take over from her from February 1 next year.

Under the leadership of Whitman, the company saw itself restructuring into HP Enterprise unit and HP Inc. In June this year, HPE Next was launched, which resulted in thousands of staff being laid off, and various processes, investments, and overheads streamlined to maintain profitability.

Whitman had taken charge as the CEO of the company in 2011. Prior to this, she was the CEO of eBay. She is also an investor Uber. Speculations were rife that after the resignation of Uber’s CEO, Whitman would take over as the CEO. She has however not discussed about what and where her next stint would be.

Whitman has been repeating for long that the next CEO would be from within the company only. Neri joined HP as a customer service engineer, and has been a part of the company for the past 22 years. He was named the president of HPE in June this year. In his current role, Neri was responsible for the development and delivery of enterprise technology solutions and services that make hybrid IT simple and power the Intelligent Edge.

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