Meg Whitman said she was “happy” to throw her predecessor as boss of the technology group Hewlett Packard “under a bus” amid the recriminations that followed its $8.8 billion writedown of Autonomy, according to documents released yesterday. In a 2012 email to her chief spin doctor, the billionaire businesswoman suggested that Léo Apotheker, the architect of the takeover, should be singled out for blame. The revelation came during the former eBay boss’s first day of testimony in the $5 billion fraud claim brought by HP against Mike Lynch, the British founder of Autonomy. Ms Whitman, 62, was an independent member of HP’s board when it struck its calamitous $11 billion takeover of the FTSE 100 software developer in 2011. She was installed as chief executive…

Source: The Times June 05, 2019 23:02 UTC