Meg Whitman stepping down as HP Enterprise CEO
NEW YORK — Meg Whitman, who oversaw the breakup of one of Silicon Valley’s pioneering companies, is stepping down as CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
HPE said Tuesday that Whitman will hand over the reins of the company to its president, Antonio Neri, on Feb. 1.
Whitman, 61, took over in 2011 at the former Hewlett-Packard Co., a company founded in 1939 and for years a tech bellwether. But it had struggled to keep up with industry trends toward mobile and cloud computing, shedding thousands of jobs in the process.
In 2015, Hewlett Packard was split in two: one company, HP Inc., sells PCs and printers. The other led by Whitman, HPE, is focused on selling data-centre hardware and other commercial tech gear to other big organizations.