Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO gets US$35.6m for fiscal 2016

New York

HEWLETT Packard Enterprise Co chief executive officer Meg Whitman got US$35.6 million in compensation for fiscal 2016 after leading efforts to pare down her company amid growing competition from cloud-based service providers.

Ms Whitman, 60, got stock options worth US$11.7 million, some of which are tied to share price goals, for the year ended Oct 31, according to a regulatory filing on Monday. She also got restricted shares worth US$19 million that will be hers if she remains on the job till 2018 and meets certain performance targets. The total value of her pay package more than doubled from the prior year, when she ran Hewlet…