Jeffrey Immelt, the outgoing chief executive officer at General Electric, is on a narrowing list of candidates to take over as head of Uber Technologies, two people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n
There are fewer than six names on the ride-hailing company\u2019s shortlist, Uber\u2019s head of human resources told employees on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is another person who had been under consideration for the CEO job, people familiar with the matter said this week.<\/p>\n
Whitman publicly withdrew her name from consideration Thursday night, saying via Twitter that she won\u2019t be Uber\u2019s CEO. \u201cWe have a lot of work still to do at HPE,\u201d she wrote. Uber and GE declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Uber is searching for seasoned executives to fill the leadership vacuum left by last month\u2019s departure of co-founder Travis Kalanick and restore confidence in the business after months of controversy.<\/p>\n
Kalanick was ousted under pressure from some of the company\u2019s major investors.<\/p>\n
Immelt, 61, said last month he was stepping down as chairman and CEO of GE after a tumultuous 16-year tenure. John Flannery, a 30-year company veteran who oversees the health unit, will become CEO of the manufacturing giant.<\/p>\n
Uber\u2019s board is meeting Thursday, though a decision on the next CEO is not expected, one of the people said. The San Francisco-based company hopes to name a CEO by early September.<\/p>\n