WTF is Meg Whitman, the woman Rush Limbaugh mentioned as being HUGELY anti-Trump on his radio show?
Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman is an American business executive and political activist and donor. Whitman is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as well as the Chairwoman of HP Inc.
A native of Long Island, New York, Whitman is a graduate of PRINCETON University, New Jersey, and HARVARD Business School, Massachusetts. Whitman served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company, where she was Vice President of Strategic Planning throughout the 1980s. In the 1990s, Whitman 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 Whitman's 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, Whitman 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. Whitman 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 of her own fortune and $178.5 million in total, including money from donors.Whitman was defeated by Democratic former Governor Jerry Brown in the 2010 California gubernatorial election by 54% to 41%.
Whitman was born in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, the daughter of Margaret Cushing (née Goodhue) and Hendricks Hallett Whitman, Jr
Her paternal great-great-great-grandfather, Elnathan Whitman, was a member of the NOVA SCOTIA House of Assembly. Through her father, Whitman is also a great-great-granddaughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, of ILLINOIS.
On her mother's side, she is a great-granddaughter of historian and jurist Munroe Smith and a great-great-granddaughter of General Henry S. Huidekoper.
Her paternal grandmother, born Adeladie Chatfield-Taylor, was the sister of economist Wayne Chatfield-Taylor.
Beginning her career in 1979 as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio. Whitman later moved on to work as a consultant at BAIN & COMPANY's San Francisco office. (A MITT ROMNEY CONNECTION?) She then rose through the ranks to achieve the position of senior vice president.
Whitman became vice president of strategic planning at The Walt Disney Company in 1989. Two years later she joined the Stride Rite Corporation, before becoming president and CEO of Florists' Transworld Delivery in 1995.
As Hasbro's Playskool Division General Manager, she oversaw global management and marketing of two children's brands, Playskool and Mr. Potato Head starting in January 1997. She also imported the UK's children's television show Teletubbies into the U.S
TELETUBBIES:
http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/teletubbies10-99.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX57USXcrw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFryBpWV2Ug
Whitman joined eBay on March 1998, when it had 30 employees and revenues of approximately $4 million. During her time as CEO, the company grew to approximately 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue by 2008.
During Whitman's tenure as CEO, eBay completed the purchase of Skype for $4.1B in cash and stock in September 2005. eBay later admitted that it had overpaid and, in 2009, eBay sold Skype to a group of investors led by Silver Lake Partners at a valuation of $2.75B. In 2011, after the first papers were filed for a possible IPO, Microsoft purchased Skype for US$8.5B.
MALTREATMENT OF AN ASIAN AMERICAN SUBORDINATE
In June 2007, while preparing for an interview with Reuters, Whitman allegedly shoved her subordinate, communications employee Young Mi Kim. Of the incident, Whitman related, "In any high-pressure working environment, tensions can surface." Kim also stated, "Yes, we had an unfortunate incident, but we resolved it in a way that speaks well for her and for eBay." The matter was resolved after a $200,000 settlement.
Whitman resigned as CEO of eBay in November 2007, but remained on the board until late 2008.
She was inducted into the U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2008.
she was named among the top five most powerful women by Fortune magazine.
Harvard Business Review named her the eighth best-performing CEO of the past decade and the Financial Times named her as one of the 50 faces that shaped the decade.
Whitman also served on the board of directors of the eBay Foundation, Summit Public Schools, Procter & Gamble and DreamWorks SKG, until early 2009
BANKSTER CONNECTIONS
She was appointed to the board of Goldman Sachs in October 2001 and then resigned in December 2002, amidst controversy that she had received shares in several public offerings managed by Goldman Sachs, although she denied any wrongdoing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman#Ties_to_Goldman_Sachs
In March 2011, she was appointed a part-time special adviser at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.[46]
She has also joined the boards of Zipcar and Teach For America( https://www.teachforamerica.org/), and re-joined the board of Procter & Gamble.
In January 2011, Whitman joined Hewlett-Packard's board of directors. She was named CEO on September 22, 2011.As well as renewing focus on HP’s Research & Development division.
In May 2013, Bloomberg L.P. named Whitman "Most Underachieving CEO-- whose stocks have all turned in the worst numbers relative to the broader market since the beginning of each CEO's tenure. HP's stock led the list by underperforming by 30 percentage points since Whitman took the job.
Charitable foundation
ANOTHER CLINTON-STYLE FOUNDATION?
Whitman founded a charitable foundation with husband Harsh on December 21, 2006, by donating to it 300,000 shares of eBay stock worth $9.4 million.By the end of its first year of operation, the Griffith R. Harsh IV and Margaret C Whitman Charitable Foundation had $46 million in assets and has disbursed $125,000 to charitable causes. Most of the money disbursed went to the Environmental Defense Fund.
In 2010, Warren Buffett asked Whitman to join the Giving Pledge in which billionaires would commit to donating half of their money to charity, and Whitman declined.
In 2011, the foundation donated $2.5 million to Summit Public Schools, which operates several charter schools in the San Jose area.
NEOCON POLITICS
Whitman was a supporter of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt ROMNEY's presidential campaign in 2008 and was on his national finance team.She was also listed as finance co-chair of Romney's exploratory committee.
After Romney stepped out of the race and endorsed John McCAIN, Whitman joined McCain's presidential campaign as a national co-chair. McCain mentioned Whitman as a possible Secretary of the Treasury during the second presidential debate in 2008, but lost the election to Barack Obama.
During the 2012 Republican primaries, Whitman endorsed Mitt ROMNEY.
The Sacramento Bee reported that Whitman did not vote for 28 years.
Housekeeper controversy
In September 2010, Nicky Diaz Santillan revealed that she was employed in the Whitman household as a housekeeper and nanny from 2000–2009 despite her status as an illegal worker.
Santillan's attorney, Gloria Allred, states that Santillan was fired for the sake of the campaign. Whitman's gubernatorial campaign maintains that this is a political attack, stating that Allred is a Jerry Brown supporter. Brown, Allred and Santillan all deny this.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram noted that Whitman "hired her, paid her and had direct contact with her for nine years", so should have known her legal status.
The L.A. Times noted that Latino voters were more likely interested that Whitman treated Santillan "like a piece of garbage" when the maid asked for help finding an immigration attorney, and Whitman allegedly stated "you don't know me and I don't know you"
Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman is an American business executive and political activist and donor. Whitman is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as well as the Chairwoman of HP Inc.
A native of Long Island, New York, Whitman is a graduate of PRINCETON University, New Jersey, and HARVARD Business School, Massachusetts. Whitman served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company, where she was Vice President of Strategic Planning throughout the 1980s. In the 1990s, Whitman 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 Whitman's 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, Whitman 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. Whitman 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 of her own fortune and $178.5 million in total, including money from donors.Whitman was defeated by Democratic former Governor Jerry Brown in the 2010 California gubernatorial election by 54% to 41%.
Whitman was born in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, the daughter of Margaret Cushing (née Goodhue) and Hendricks Hallett Whitman, Jr
Her paternal great-great-great-grandfather, Elnathan Whitman, was a member of the NOVA SCOTIA House of Assembly. Through her father, Whitman is also a great-great-granddaughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, of ILLINOIS.
On her mother's side, she is a great-granddaughter of historian and jurist Munroe Smith and a great-great-granddaughter of General Henry S. Huidekoper.
Her paternal grandmother, born Adeladie Chatfield-Taylor, was the sister of economist Wayne Chatfield-Taylor.
Beginning her career in 1979 as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio. Whitman later moved on to work as a consultant at BAIN & COMPANY's San Francisco office. (A MITT ROMNEY CONNECTION?) She then rose through the ranks to achieve the position of senior vice president.
Whitman became vice president of strategic planning at The Walt Disney Company in 1989. Two years later she joined the Stride Rite Corporation, before becoming president and CEO of Florists' Transworld Delivery in 1995.
As Hasbro's Playskool Division General Manager, she oversaw global management and marketing of two children's brands, Playskool and Mr. Potato Head starting in January 1997. She also imported the UK's children's television show Teletubbies into the U.S
TELETUBBIES:
http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/teletubbies10-99.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX57USXcrw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFryBpWV2Ug
Whitman joined eBay on March 1998, when it had 30 employees and revenues of approximately $4 million. During her time as CEO, the company grew to approximately 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue by 2008.
During Whitman's tenure as CEO, eBay completed the purchase of Skype for $4.1B in cash and stock in September 2005. eBay later admitted that it had overpaid and, in 2009, eBay sold Skype to a group of investors led by Silver Lake Partners at a valuation of $2.75B. In 2011, after the first papers were filed for a possible IPO, Microsoft purchased Skype for US$8.5B.
MALTREATMENT OF AN ASIAN AMERICAN SUBORDINATE
In June 2007, while preparing for an interview with Reuters, Whitman allegedly shoved her subordinate, communications employee Young Mi Kim. Of the incident, Whitman related, "In any high-pressure working environment, tensions can surface." Kim also stated, "Yes, we had an unfortunate incident, but we resolved it in a way that speaks well for her and for eBay." The matter was resolved after a $200,000 settlement.
Whitman resigned as CEO of eBay in November 2007, but remained on the board until late 2008.
She was inducted into the U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2008.
she was named among the top five most powerful women by Fortune magazine.
Harvard Business Review named her the eighth best-performing CEO of the past decade and the Financial Times named her as one of the 50 faces that shaped the decade.
Whitman also served on the board of directors of the eBay Foundation, Summit Public Schools, Procter & Gamble and DreamWorks SKG, until early 2009
BANKSTER CONNECTIONS
She was appointed to the board of Goldman Sachs in October 2001 and then resigned in December 2002, amidst controversy that she had received shares in several public offerings managed by Goldman Sachs, although she denied any wrongdoing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman#Ties_to_Goldman_Sachs
In March 2011, she was appointed a part-time special adviser at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.[46]
She has also joined the boards of Zipcar and Teach For America( https://www.teachforamerica.org/), and re-joined the board of Procter & Gamble.
In January 2011, Whitman joined Hewlett-Packard's board of directors. She was named CEO on September 22, 2011.As well as renewing focus on HP’s Research & Development division.
In May 2013, Bloomberg L.P. named Whitman "Most Underachieving CEO-- whose stocks have all turned in the worst numbers relative to the broader market since the beginning of each CEO's tenure. HP's stock led the list by underperforming by 30 percentage points since Whitman took the job.
Charitable foundation
ANOTHER CLINTON-STYLE FOUNDATION?
Whitman founded a charitable foundation with husband Harsh on December 21, 2006, by donating to it 300,000 shares of eBay stock worth $9.4 million.By the end of its first year of operation, the Griffith R. Harsh IV and Margaret C Whitman Charitable Foundation had $46 million in assets and has disbursed $125,000 to charitable causes. Most of the money disbursed went to the Environmental Defense Fund.
In 2010, Warren Buffett asked Whitman to join the Giving Pledge in which billionaires would commit to donating half of their money to charity, and Whitman declined.
In 2011, the foundation donated $2.5 million to Summit Public Schools, which operates several charter schools in the San Jose area.
NEOCON POLITICS
Whitman was a supporter of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt ROMNEY's presidential campaign in 2008 and was on his national finance team.She was also listed as finance co-chair of Romney's exploratory committee.
After Romney stepped out of the race and endorsed John McCAIN, Whitman joined McCain's presidential campaign as a national co-chair. McCain mentioned Whitman as a possible Secretary of the Treasury during the second presidential debate in 2008, but lost the election to Barack Obama.
During the 2012 Republican primaries, Whitman endorsed Mitt ROMNEY.
The Sacramento Bee reported that Whitman did not vote for 28 years.
Housekeeper controversy
In September 2010, Nicky Diaz Santillan revealed that she was employed in the Whitman household as a housekeeper and nanny from 2000–2009 despite her status as an illegal worker.
Santillan's attorney, Gloria Allred, states that Santillan was fired for the sake of the campaign. Whitman's gubernatorial campaign maintains that this is a political attack, stating that Allred is a Jerry Brown supporter. Brown, Allred and Santillan all deny this.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram noted that Whitman "hired her, paid her and had direct contact with her for nine years", so should have known her legal status.
The L.A. Times noted that Latino voters were more likely interested that Whitman treated Santillan "like a piece of garbage" when the maid asked for help finding an immigration attorney, and Whitman allegedly stated "you don't know me and I don't know you"