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Fiorina, Carly. Reproduced by permission. Many give credit to the savvy businesswoman for leading the technology titan into the twenty-first century. In Fiorina cemented her reputation as a risk taker when she engineered a controversial merger between HP and Compaq Computers.

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After expanding her empire, Fiorina was sitting at the helm of the second largest computer company in the world. By the mids, however, given HP's shaky numbers, critics wondered if Fiorina's reign would continue. Regardless, her role in history as a trailblazer would remain. When she joined Hewlett-Packard in , Fiorina became the only woman to head a large, publicly held company in the United States.

Her unique name was the result of family tradition. All the male members of the Sneed family who were named Carleton died while serving in the Civil War — To honor them, one child in each subsequent generation was named either Carleton if a boy or Cara Carleton if a girl. Fiorina's father, Joseph Sneed, was a lawyer and at one time served as deputy attorney general under President Richard M.

Nixon — He also served for more than thirty years as an appeals court judge in San Francisco, California. Fiorina's mother, Madelon, was an abstract painter. In , during a ceremony honoring her father's longstanding career, Fiorina credited her parents for inspiring her to excel. It is made by those who believe everything is possible.