Meg Whitman, CEO of Quibi speaks in Laguna Beach, California, October 22, 2019.
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President Joe Biden has actually selected huge cash political donor and previous Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman to be his ambassador to Kenya.
Whitman invested years in top-level business functions, however she has actually likewise been politically active for many years.
She ran in 2010 as a Republican for guv in California however lost to Democrat JerryBrown She supported now-Sen Mitt Romney’s runs for president in 2008– prior to she ultimately ended up beingSen John McCain’s nationwide project co-chair– and in2012 She backed Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 race versus Donald Trump.
Last year, she provided $500,000 to the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee that benefited the Biden project and the Democratic National Committee.
Wealthy donors frequently get ambassadorships in Democratic and Republican administrations alike.
Data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reveals that well over a lots Obama project advocates ended up being ambassadors throughout his administration. Biden formerly selected donor Tom Nides, a previous executive at Morgan Stanley who had a stint in the Obama administration, to be the U.S. ambassador toIsrael Former President Donald Trump likewise picked ambassadors to different nations after they added to his project.
In revealing Biden’s choice of Whitman, the White House noted her substantial service background.
Before she ran Hewlett-Packard, Whitman was the CEO of e-commerce huge eBay. Whitman ultimately ended up being the CEO of Quibi, a temporary, short-form video platform that was established by Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg.
She serves on the boards of General Motors and Procter & & Gamble.
