Cara Fiorina to run for the US Senate
Carly Fiorina is now running for the republican nomination for the US senate in California, says her website. Cara Fiorina is a top notch female executive who once worked as CEO at Hewlett Packard (HP) and AT & T. She is considered to be an up and coming powerful business woman and has previously served as a top economic advisor to republican ex-presidential candidate John McCain. At present, Cara Fiorina sits on several business board organizations
Cara Carleton was born in Austin, Texas and obtained her MBA from RH Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. She also has a Masters of Science in Management from MIT Sloan School of management.
Fiorina started off in the late 80s as a management trainee at AT & T and soon rose to become VP of the firm. Her career steadily grew and she was appointed chairman of Lucent consumers’ communications and was voted as the most powerful business woman in 1998 by fortune magazine. Since that time, she has always made the top ten ranks as one of the most powerful business women in North America.
In 2005, Cara was forced out of HP after the company stocks fells but insider information suggest that she was just too aggressive and her ideology did not go along well with other board members. Her tenure at HP has been analyzed and the reviews are mixed. While some say that she is a powerful business woman, there are others who also claim that she ranks as one of the worst American CEOs of all time.
After leaving HP, Fiorina joined several boards of trustees including the MIT, world economic forum and she is an honorary fellow of the London school of business.
Her website this morning says she is considering running for the US senate elections in California 2010, where she will most likely run against Barbara Boxer.
Fiorina has been married twice and currently lives in Los Altos hills, CA