Title: President and CEO
Meg Whitman joined eBay as President and CEO in March 1998. Since that time, she has led the company to become the world's online marketplace and the number one consumer e-commerce site. Meg's expertise in brand building, combined with her consumer technology experience, has helped eBay evolve into a leading company that is reshaping how commerce takes place around the world.
Prior to eBay, Meg was General Manager of Hasbro Inc.'s Preschool Division. In this position she was responsible for global management and marketing of two of the world's best-known children's brands, Playskool and Mr. Potato Head. During her tenure, Meg oversaw the reorganization of the Preschool Division and its resulting return to profitability. From 1995 to 1997, Meg was President and CEO of Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD), the world's largest floral products company. While at FTD, she oversaw the transition from a florist-owned association to a for-profit, privately owned company. In addition, she led the launch of FTD's Internet strategy, and site (www.ftd.com) that includes individual florists' shops under the FTD banner.
Before FTD, Meg served as President of the Stride Rite Corporation's Stride Rite Division where she was responsible for the launch of the highly successful Munchkin baby shoe line and the repositioning of the Stride Rite brand and retail stores. She has also held the positions of Executive Vice President for the Keds Division and Corporate Vice President of Strategic Planning. Meg spent 1989 to 1992 at the Walt Disney Company, highlighted by her work as Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Disney Consumer Products Division. During this time, she managed key aspects of Disney's major businesses, set up vertically integrated Disney publishing operations, developed the strategy for Disney's entry into the book publishing business, and led the acquisition of Discover Magazine.
She also worked for eight years at Bain & Company's San Francisco office where she held a vice president position. Meg began her career at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati where she worked in brand management from 1979 to 1981.
Among Whitman's many accolades, Fortune magazine ranked her the third most powerful woman in business in 2002; Worth magazine ranked her number one on its 2002 list of best CEOs; and Business Week magazine named her among the 25 most powerful business managers annually since 2000.
Meg sits on the Board of Directors of Procter & Gamble and Princeton University Board of Trustees. She received a Bachelor of Economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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