Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, is Uber's top choice as CEO. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)SAN FRANCISCO — Uber is closing in on its choice for a new chief executive, and the top candidate is Hewlett-Packard Enterprise chief executive Meg Whitman. If Whitman took the position, she would become one of the most scrutinized and prominent women chief executives in Silicon Valley. The former, where she serves as chief executive, focuses on services for business while the other handles consumer hardware, personal computers and printers. Whitman is also former chief executive of e-commerce firm eBay, which she grew to $8 billion in revenue and 15,000 employees by the time she left in 2008.

Source: Washington Post August 27, 2017 20:59 UTC