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Carly Fiorina
Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina is an American businesswoman and politician, known primarily for her tenure as chief executive officer (CEO) of Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1999 to 2005. Fiorina is the first woman to lead a Fortune Top-20 company. She is also known for her candidacies for U.S. Senate in California in 2010 and for president of the United States in 2016.
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business · American businesswoman and politician (born 1954) · politician · businessperson · also Carly Fiorina, Cara Carleton Fiorina, Cara Carleton "Carly" Carioina, Cara Fiorina, Cara Carleton Sneed, Cara Carleton "Carly" Sneed
Born 6 September 1954 · Q256380
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2026· 3 entries
“there is no constitutional role for the federal government to be setting minimum wages”
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“laid the groundwork for some of HP”
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2020· 1 entry
Fiorina endorsed Joe Biden's presidential campaign due to her disapproval of President Donald Trump
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2017· 2 entries
Claimed: “Says Donald Trump was "forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice, four times."” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Fiorina joined the board of trustees for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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2016· 20 entries
Campaign ended: 2016 U.S. vice presidential election.
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The Guardian: Carly Fiorina falls off stage during Ted Cruz event – video
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The Guardian: Remind me again – who is Carly Fiorina?
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The Guardian: Carly Fiorina's singing scored on late-night. But at a rally, it was just creepy | Cindy Casares
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The Guardian: Carly Fiorina sings lullaby as she becomes Ted Cruz’s running mate – video
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The Guardian: Ted Cruz names Carly Fiorina as his vice-presidential running mate
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Cruz announced that he would choose Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate if he were selected as the party's presidential nominee
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The Guardian: Carly Fiorina endorses Ted Cruz: 'He doesn't care about DC cocktail parties' – video
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Fiorina endorsed Texas Senator Ted Cruz for President, saying she was "horrified" by Donald Trump and that Cruz was the only candidate that could stop him
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Published video “Carly Fiorina's speech at CPAC 2016.”.
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Published video “Carly (Stand with me)”.
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The Guardian: Carly Fiorina drops out of Republican presidential race
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Published video “Our most pressing national security challenge is radical Islamic terrorism.”.
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Published video “Chuck Todd to Carly: "I think your delegate argument is a pretty good one."”.
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Published video “Carly at the New Hampshire First in the Nation Presidential Town Hall”.
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Published video “That is why I'm running for President. It is time to take our country back.”.
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Published video “We Will Not Settle”.
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Published video “It is time to take our country back.”.
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But refused to rule out running for president in 2016 or Governor of California in 2018
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Campaign: 2016 U.S. vice presidential election.
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2015· 16 entries
Published video “Flying is an activity. It is not an accomplishment.”.
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Published video “The Clinton Way”.
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Claimed: “Mrs. Fiorina said Silicon Valley companies “do not need to be forced, they need to be asked” to help law enforcement get access to encrypted data.” — rated They were asked, and resisted. by The New York Times.
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Claimed: “At Hewlett-Packard, Mrs. Fiorina said she provided equipment to assist the National Security Agency.” — rated Technically true. by The New York Times.
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Claimed: “Mrs. Fiorina said she met President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.” — rated Yep. by The New York Times.
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Claimed: “Mrs. Fiorina said she met President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia “not in a green room for a show, but in a private meeting.”” — rated The opposite of what she said before. by The New York Times.
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In a television and promotional video, therein repeating her talking points from CPAC and including an attack on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton
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Opportunity International announced that Fiorina was resigning from the Board after the announcement of her presidential candidacy
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Fiorina announced her candidacy during an interview on Good Morning America, with George Stephanopoulos
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“I felt it was my duty to help, and so we did,”
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According to the financial disclosures filed by Fiorina's campaign in June 2015, she and her husband have a combined net worth of $59 million.
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Fiorina reaffirmed her support for civil unions with the same government benefits accorded to married persons
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“she was raised Episcopalian but is not a regular churchgoer.”
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Fiorina said: "I felt it was my duty to help, and so we did," adding, "They were ramping up a whole set of programs and needed a lot of data crunching capability to try and monitor a whole set of threats
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On the agreement, wrote that "Steve Jobs blithely mugged her and HP's shareholders
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Fiorina received an honorary degree and delivered the commencement address at Southern New Hampshire University
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2013· 3 entries
Al Cardenas, chair of the American Conservative Union (ACU), appointed Fiorina as chair of the American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF), the ACU's educational arm
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Opportunity International announced a partnership with Fiorina and OWI to provide financial resources, education and training to two million women living in poverty
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Fiorina has released the income tax returns that she and her husband jointly filed in 2013 and 2012; in those years, the Fiorinas reported income of almost $2 million and $1.3 million, respectively.
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2010· 6 entries
Election won: 2010 U.S. Senate candidacy for California.
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Fiorina won the Republican primary election for the Senate with over 50 percent of the vote, beating Campbell and state assemblyman Chuck DeVore
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Won the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in California, but lost the general election to incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer
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Fiorina stated that she supported the Defense of Marriage Act, but also supported civil unions
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And for president of the United States in 2016
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Campaign: 2010 U.S. Senate candidacy for California.
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2009· 3 entries
Fiorina formally announced her candidacy in the 2010 Senate election in a bid to unseat incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer
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She was given "an excellent prognosis for a full recovery." In late 2009, during her campaign for the United States Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer, Fiorina humorously told a group of supporters: "I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore."
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And 20% of TSMC directors' meetings in 2008
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2008· 6 entries
Whether she thought Palin had the experience to run a major company like Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina answered "No, I don't
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HP, under then-Chief Executive Mark Hurd, confirmed that it had reached a deal to buy Electronic Data Systems, the largest since the Compaq purchase
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Fiorina was named fundraising chair for the Republican National Committee's "Victory" initiative
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InfoWorld grouped her with a list of products and ideas that flopped, declaring that her tenure as CEO of HP was the sixth worst tech flop of all time, and characterizing her as the "anti-Steve Jobs" for reversing the go
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The SEC sent a letter of inquiry to HP, who responded that products worth US$120 million were sold in fiscal 2008 arguing that the sales did not violate export sanctions because they were made through a foreign subsidiar
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Former acting CEO of Compaq Ben Rosen stated that although Fiorina lacked the skills to run the merged company, her successors made it work
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2007· 1 entry
By then-CIA director Michael Hayden during the George W
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2006· 2 entries
Became a member of the board of directors for chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), but resigned from that board on November 30, 2009, with the company saying this was "because she planned to
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Fiorina worked as an advisor for Republican senator John McCain's presidential campaign
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2005· 4 entries
After HP had acquired several other companies, HP had about 150,000 employees
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Was viewed by some as a political liability during the campaign
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The Wall Street Journal described Fiorina as the epitome of "an alluring, controversial new breed of chief executive officers who combine grand visions with charismatic but self-centered and demanding styles"
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Between 2005 and 2012, Fiorina and her husband owned a condominium in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, where they lived for roughly half the year; they sold the condo for $5.3 million.
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2004· 4 entries
“There is no job that is America”
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Was included in the Time 100 ranking of "most influential people in the world today" and named tenth on the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
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HP fell dramatically short of its predicted third-quarter earnings, and Fiorina fired three executives during a 5 AM telephone call
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“America is the most innovative country,”
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2003· 1 entry
Fiorina was named by Fortune Magazine the most powerful woman in business, a position she held for five years
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2002· 1 entry
Fiorina oversaw what was then the largest technology sector merger in history, in which HP acquired rival personal computer manufacturer, Compaq
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2001· 2 entries
Received a phone call from Michael Hayden, then the director of the National Security Agency, asking her assistance in providing HP computer servers to the NSA for expanded surveillance
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“s 64-year history, but those cuts would not actually occur until after the Compaq merger was announced. In September 2001, Fiorina said she intended to cut an additional 15,000 jobs in the event of a merger with Compaq. In all, Fiorina laid off 30,000 U.S. employees. According to PolitiFact, those 30,000 layoffs were”
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1999· 1 entry
When Fiorina became CEO of HP, the company had 84,800 employees
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1997· 3 entries
Was named group president for Lucent's US$19 billion global service-provider business, overseeing marketing and sales for the company's largest customer segment
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Prior to Fiorina's joining the company, HP's Dutch subsidiary formed a partnership with a company in Dubai, Redington Gulf, which sold HP's products in Iran
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Was named group president for Lucent's US$19 billion global service-provider business
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1996· 1 entry
Fiorina was appointed president of Lucent's consumer products sector
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1995· 1 entry
Fiorina led corporate operations for Lucent Technologies, Inc
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1994· 3 entries
“Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.”
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“They're not terribly imaginative. They're not entrepreneurial. They don't innovate. That's why they're stealing our intellectual property.”
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“Trump says a lot of things that are crazy... Trump's a moron.”
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1990· 2 entries
Was named senior vice president and oversaw the company's hardware and systems division
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Became the company's first female officer; she was named senior vice president and oversaw the company's hardware and systems division
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1989· 1 entry
Obtained a Master of Science degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management under the Sloan Fellows program
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1980· 2 entries
Fiorina received a Master of Business Administration in marketing from the Robert H
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Fiorina joined AT&T as a management trainee, selling telephone services to large federal agencies
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1977· 2 entries
Fiorina (then Cara Carleton Sneed) married Todd Bartlem, a Stanford classmate, in June 1977.
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And her husband moved to Bologna, Italy, where he did graduate work; in Italy, she tutored Italian businessmen in the English language
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1954· 2 entries
In Austin, Texas, the daughter of Madelon Montross (née Juergens) and Joseph Tyree Sneed III
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Born 1954-09-06.
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