Former HPE boss Meg Whitman lands new CEO job at mobile-video startup
Meg Whitman has taken the chief executive officer job at NewTV, one of Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo LLC portfolio companies, the company said Wednesday. Whitman has previously run Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and eBay Inc. NewTV is the company's working name. Whitman stepped down from HPE in November, after a six-year tenure with the company where she promised to turn the business around, and including splitting the company into two parts in 2014. Whitman is tasked with building the online service which will target 18- to 34-year olds, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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