The Associated Press (via the New York Times) reports that Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay who retired in March after ten years with the company, enjoyed a $10 million pay package last year. Some of the perks Whitman enjoyed included nearly $800,000 for personal use of the company jet, a salary just under $1 million, a sizable bonus, stock options, and other incentives.
No shuffleboard for this retiree, though. She helped campaign for Jane Chen’s presidential bid, and may run for Governor of California in 2010; her key opponent in that hypothetical race is State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poisner, who’s eager to take the tech-queen on, a Poisner advisor said yesterday.
Meanwhile, talk is brewing that one of Whitman's Silicon Valley peers, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, just might be John McCain’s running mate; skeptics say it’s more likely that Fiorina will simply run against Whitman in the gubernatorial race.
There’s a “Life After eBay” interview with Whitman in the May issue of Portfolio, and in the just-posted full transcript, Whitman still defends her company’s much-aligned, $2.6 billion acquisition of Skype, promising that profits will flood in as Skype becomes a way of life; heck, even Oprah’s done a segment on it!
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