He’s out. Eric Alexander, Uber’s president of business in Asia, has reportedly been fired after it emerged that he’d not only obtained the medical records of a woman raped by her Uber driver in India, but had discussed them with other executives, including CEO Travis Kalanick.
Though Uber announced this week that it fired 20 employees over a probe into sexual harassment and misconduct, Alexander wasn’t one of them — until reporters demanded information about the 2014 rape investigation. Meanwhile, allegations surfaced that Uber’s compensation-setting algorithm disadvantaged female employees.
