HPE Returns to Techie Roots Naming Neri to Succeed Whitman
- New CEO is first technologist at helm since Platt left in 1999
- Company follows Microsoft in going back to engineer as leader
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is going back to its roots.
The company now known as HPE will be run by an engineer for the first time in almost two decades, now that Antonio Neri is succeeding Meg Whitman as chief executive officer.