EX HP CEO TREATED FOR CANCER

[Anonymous]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10186316-92.html
Carly Fiorina treated for breast cancer
Former
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has been diagnosed with breast cancer
and underwent surgery Monday at Stanford Hospital, according to a
report in The San Francisco Chronicle.Fiorina, a Republican largely
expected to run for a U.S. Senate seat for California, was diagnosed
February 20, one day before addressing a state GOP convention in
Sacramento, according to the report.”She’s doing great…she only just
learned about this,” the paper quoted Deborah Bowker, her chief of
staff, as saying in an e-mail. She said Fiorina’s prognosis for full
recovering and that she is expected to resume “all of the activities to
which she is enthusiastically committed.”

Fiorina, 54, was the
chairman and CEO of HP from 1999 to 2005, but was ousted after
disagreements with the board of directors over how to execute the
company’s strategy. During her tenure at HP, Fiorina resisted calls to
break the Silicon Valley icon into two separate companies, with one
focused on business customers and another focused on consumers. HP’s
merger with Compaq Computer, which was spearheaded by Fiorina, has also
been criticized.

In her 2006 book, “Tough Choices,” Fiorina
detailed the inner workings of what she saw as an often-divided board
of directors, calling some members’ behavior “amateurish and immature.”
Since
leaving HP, Fiorina has dabbled in politics, appearing on behalf of
Sen. John McCain at the Republican National Convention during his
unsuccessful bid for the presidency last year. Fiorina was also a
member of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team in
2003.

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March 4, 2009 at 12:27 PM