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Hewlett Packard CEO Whitman says she has no plans for political office

November 21, 2017 at 06:41 pm EST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman, who announced on Tuesday she will step down early next year, said she has no plans to run for public office.

“I stay active in politics by contributing to candidates from both sides of the aisle who I agree with on core issues, but aside from that, I have no plans to get involved directly,” Whitman told Reuters in a statement.

Whitman ran unsuccessfully for California governor in 2010, and she has served on the presidential campaigns of Republican former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. She endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

(Reporting by Salvador Rodriguez; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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Meg Whitman

Margaret Cushing Whitman is a businessperson who has been at the head of 9 different companies and is Chief Executive Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP and Chief Executive Officer & Director at Quibi Holdings LLC. Ms. Whitman is also Chief Executive Officer at NewTV (Massachusetts) and on the board of 5 other companies. Ms. Whitman previously was Chairman of HP, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Co. (a subsidiary of HP, Inc.), President & Chief Executive Officer of eBay, Inc., Director at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co., General Manager-Preschool Division at Hasbro, Inc., Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC, Vice President for Bain & Co., Inc., President & Chief Executive Officer for FTD, Inc., President & Chief Executive Officer for GUE Liquidation Delivery, Inc. and Senior Vice President-Marketing for Disney Consumer Products, Inc. Margaret Cushing Whitman received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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