Capellas, Compaq's last Chairman and CEO, became president of the post-merger Hewlett-Packard, under Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina, to ease the integration of the two companies.

After the board forced Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina to resign in January 2005, CFO Robert P. Wayman became interim CEO for several months.

Following the acquisition, Benny Landa became a strategic advisor to HP CEO Carly Fiorina, Landa was quoted saying:

Fiorina served as chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005 and previously was an executive at AT & T and its equipment and technology spinoff, Lucent.

In 2005, Fiorina was forced to resign as chief executive officer and chairman of HP following " differences the board of directors about how to execute HP's strategy.

In 1995, Fiorina led corporate operations for the spinoff from AT & T of Lucent, reporting to Lucent chief executive Henry B. Schacht ; she played a key role in planning and implementing the 1996 initial public offering of stock and company launch strategy.

Later in 1996, Fiorina was appointed president of Lucent's consumer products business, reporting to Rich McGinn, president and chief operating officer.

In July 1999, Hewlett-Packard Company named Fiorina chief executive officer succeeding Lewis Platt and prevailing over the internal candidate Ann Livermore.

* Carly Fiorina ( R-CA ), former chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard

Carly Fiorina ( born Cara Carleton Sneed ; September 6, 1954 ) is an American business executive and a former Republican candidate for the United States Senate representing California.

The management, under Carly Fiorina, remained in place, and the merger went ahead.

'" Packard further stated that " Fiorina ’ s high-handed management and her efforts to reinvent the company ran counter to the company ’ s core values as established by the founders ".

Carly Fiorina, initially seen as HP's savior when she was hired as CEO back in 1999, had seen the company's stock price drop to less than half since she assumed the position, and her job was said to be on shakey ground before the merger announcement.

His father, Achille La Guardia, was a lapsed-Catholic from Cerignola, and his mother, Irene Coen, was a Jew from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto better known as Shadal.

In September 2010, Saint Mary ’ s hosted the first U. S. Senatorial debate between incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer and her then Republican challenger Carly Fiorina.

Fiorina was considered one of the most powerful women in business during her tenure at Lucent and Hewlett-Packard.

In November 2009, Fiorina announced she would challenge incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer for her United States Senate seat representing California.

Fiorina attended Channing School in London, and later attended Charles E. Jordan High School in Durham, North Carolina, for her senior year ; the family relocated frequently during this time.

Fiorina fought for the merger, and it was implemented despite strong opposition from board member Walter Hewlett ( the son of company co-founder William Hewlett ) who claimed that the merger was being pursued by Fiorina in desperation to make a strategic decision and to give her some breathing space from Wall Street.

Ripley's life and career has been extensively expanded on in various spin-off comics and novels, many of which discount her death on Fiorina 161, instead providing a chronology continuing on from the end of Aliens.

At the start of November 2009, his new opponent, Carly Fiorina was suggesting, despite the fact that DeVore was garnering endorsements such as from Sen. Jim DeMint and almost 60 percent of California's elected Republican officials, including Rep. Tom McClintock, that he lacked the name recognition to provide her with a serious challenge in the primaries.

In 1998, Fortune Magazine included her on their inaugural list of the Fifty Most Powerful Women, with Rhone joining corporate executives such as Carly Fiorina and Geraldine Laybourne, among others.

Fiorina received a Master of Business Administration in marketing from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1980.

The incident began when Delio published an article at MIT Technology Review based on an interview with an anonymous insider at Hewlett-Packard who claimed the existence of a misogynistic attitude at the company towards then-CEO Carly Fiorina and female staff in general.

However, Capellas was reported not to be happy with his role, being said not to be utilized and being unlikely to become CEO as the board supported Fiorina.

* Fiorina, Morris P., with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope, Culture War?

Fiorina proceeded to reorganize HP, and merge the part she kept with the PC maker Compaq.

In early September of 2001, in the wake of the bursting of the Tech Bubble, Fiorina announced the controversial merger with Compaq, a leading competitor in the industry.

It is Europe's largest chain of Internet cafés and is the holder of the record for the world ’ s largest Internet café ( as certified by Guinness World Records ) with 800 terminals near New York's Times Square, opened by Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett Packard ( HP ) in November 2000.

Erickson later reaffirmed his support of DeVore and publicly called for Fiorina to drop out of the race, stating " A conservative whose first name starts with a ' C ' can win the primary and beat Barbara Boxer.

The founders ' families who controlled a significant amount of HP shares were further irked because Fiorina had made no attempt to reach out to them and consult about the merger, instead they received the standard roadshow presentation as other investors.

Fiorina helmed HP for nearly three years after Capellas left.

In February 2005, the Board of Directors ousted Fiorina.

* Fiorina ' Fury ' 161 — Mining station penal colony on which Alien 3 is set.

* Morris P. Fiorina, political scientist

On June 8, 2010 he lost his bid for the United States Senate seat held by Democrat Barbara Boxer, having been defeated in the Republican primary by Carly Fiorina.

In March 1999, HP's board had initiated a search for Platt's successor as CEO which would eventually be Carly Fiorina who came from Lucent Technologies.

Although Platt was instrumental in hiring Fiorina, he was viewed as a " has been " as she reportedly stopped seeking his advice a few weeks after she joined HP.

In 2008, Fiorina served as an advisor to Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

On June 8, 2010, Fiorina won the Republican primary election, but lost the general election on November 2, 2010 to Boxer.

Fiorina was born as Cara Carleton Sneed in Austin, Texas, on September 6, 1954, the daughter of Joseph Tyree Sneed III – a law school professor, dean, and federal judge – and Madelon Montross ( née Juergens ), a portrait and abstract artist.