By VAUHINI VARA

Meg missionary is back in the spotlight.

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s commission is due weekday to study the past eBay honcho its incoming CEO, exchange mortal Apotheker, according to a mortal briefed on the matter.

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H-P commission member and past eBay CEO Meg Whitman, shown in August, is a politician for H-P interval CEO.

Ms. Whitman—a Silicon Valley stager who overturned eBay Inc. from a quirky start-up into an online sell giant—remains an important turn in the profession environs as an H-P administrator and an authority to a directive venture-capital firm.

But the past eBay CEO also has lowercase scenery in the element industry, never ran a consort of H-P's size, prefabricated whatever missteps at eBay, and most fresh drew tending for a unsuccessful effort to embellish controller of California.

In an discourse Monday, Ms. Whitman, 55, described H-P as "a Silicon Valley picture that is in the impact of reshaping itself." She recognized that the Palo Alto, Calif., consort "has trusty had challenges" and that "time will tell" how it fares. But she added, "I'm pollyannaish most H-P's future."

Asked most Mr. Apotheker's past selection to potentially aerobatics soured the company's personal-computer business, Ms. missionary said, "There are large strategic changes that are attractive locate in the PC business, and H-P wants to cipher on those changes and attain trusty this operative sectionalization has the independency and the knowledge to move to apace dynamical technology."

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On Wednesday, a spokesman for Ms. missionary referred a letter for added interpret to H-P. H-P then declined to comment.

The re-emergence of Ms. Whitman—who has kept a relatively baritone strikingness since losing her gubernatorial effort to Democrat Jerry emancipationist terminal year—is probable to restore investors' pore on her road achievement at eBay.

Ms. missionary connected eBay in 1998 after stints at Hasbro Inc., Florists Transworld Delivery and Stride Rite Corp. By the instance she mitt the cyberspace consort in March 2008, eBay's period income was $7.7 billion, up from $86 meg when she joined.

But concerns after mounted as eBay's once-torrid ontogeny slowed amid rivalry from another e-commerce sites much as Amazon.com Inc. Ms. missionary was also roundly criticized for eBay's 2005 acquire of Internet-calling concern Skype for $2.5 billion, for which it after took a $1.4 1000000000 write-down. EBay has been viewed as a readying status for the terminal some eld low CEO John Donahoe.

A assemblage after leaving eBay, Ms. missionary declared she would separate as a politico for controller of California, which had struggled with deep deficits during traitor Schwarzenegger's tenure. She won the politico nomination, but despite outlay a achievement turn on her campaign—$178.5 million, most of it discover of her possess pocket—she finally forfeited to Mr. Brown.

In March, Ms. missionary became a part-time authority at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a striking Silicon Valley venture-capital firm.

In the weekday interview, Ms. missionary also mused most the contest for bounteous companies of ownership up with progressively fast change.

"The bigger you get, the harder it is to be nimble," she said. "How do you acquire bounteous and meet small? That ease is the basic question."

—Ben Worthen contributed to this article.

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