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The former CEO of eBay, Margaret C. (Meg) Whitman is a high profile corporate leader who has also worked at Hasbro, FTD, Walt Disney Company and Procter & Gamble. She is said to be worth over a billion dollars, and is considering a run for the governorship of California in 2010, to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Whitman was the president and CEO of eBay from March 1998 to March 2008. She ran eBay during a period of tremendous growth for the company. Today eBay is a major player in online commerce (eBay.com), payments (PayPal) and communications (Skype) around the world.

Prior to eBay, Whitman was general manager of Hasbro Inc.'s Preschool Division, responsible for global management and marketing of two of the world's best-known children's brands, Playskool and Mr. Potato Head. From 1995 to 1997, she was president and chief executive officer of Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD), the world's largest floral products company. While at FTD, she oversaw its transition from a florist-owned association to a for-profit, privately owned company.

Before FTD, Whitman was 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. Whitman spent 1989 to 1992 at the Walt Disney Company, working as senior vice president of marketing for the Disney Consumer Products Division. She also worked for eight years at Bain & Company’s San Francisco office where she was a vice president. Whitman began her career at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati where she worked in brand management from 1979 to 1981.

A donation of $30 million to her alma mater, Princeton University, resulted in the construction of the university's sixth residential college, Whitman College, which opened in Fall 2007.

Whitman supported former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in his failed 2008 presidential campaign, serving on his "National Finance Team."

Whitman is routinely described as one of the most powerful and influential women in American business. She is on the board of directors of Procter & Gamble and eBay, and is considering a run for the governorship of California in 2010.