Category: Business Executive

Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina


Carly Fiorina is a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. She served as chief executive officer (CEO) of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to lead a Fortune 50 business. Fiorina was born September 6, 1954, in Austin, Texas. She received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and medieval history from Stanford University in 1976. In 1980, she earned a master's degree in business administration from the University of Maryland. After graduate school, Fiorina worked for AT&T as a sales representative and was […]
Karen Hughes
Karen Hughes


Karen Hughes served as the under-secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs in the U.S. Department of State from 2005 to 2007. Hughes was born on December 27, 1956, in Paris, France, to American parents Patricia and Harold Parfitt, the last U.S. governor of the Panama Canal Zone. She is a Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Southern Methodist University, with a bachelor of arts in English and a bachelor of fine arts in journalism. She began her career as a television news reporter for […]
Sara Jacobs
Sara Jacobs


Sara Jacobs ran for California’s 49th Congressional District in the 2018 elections, but she lost in the primaries. Jacobs was born in Encinitas, California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and government from Columbia University and her Master of Arts in international relations and affairs from Columbia University. In 2011 she became a Peacekeeping/Development employee for the United Nations and then an Innovation Unit employee for the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund in 2013. In 2014 she became the Conflict and Stabilization Policy Officer for the […]
Mary Kramer
Mary E Kramer


Mary E. Kramer served as U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean from 2004 to 2006. Prior to serving as ambassador, Kramer served in the Iowa state Senate from 1990 to 2003. She was elected president of the Senate in 1997, becoming the first independently elected woman to fill the post. Kramer was born June 14, 1935, in Burlington, Iowa, and grew up in Iowa City. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in piano performance and a Master of Arts in lifelong learning, both from the University of Iowa. […]
Anita Malik
Anita Malik


Anita Malik was the 2018 Democratic nominee for Arizona's 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Malik was born on January 5, 1976, in Kansas City, Missouri, and moved to Arizona when she was seven years old. She earned Bachelor of Science degrees in computer information systems and finance from Arizona State University in 1998, and a Master of Arts in journalism from the University of Southern California in 2002. She served as chief operations officer at ClearVoice, a content technology company in Phoenix, Arizona, from 2013 until […]
Linda McMahon
Linda McMahon


Linda McMahon is the administrator of the Small Business Administration under the Trump administration. McMahon was born October 4, 1948 in New Bern, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree in French from East Carolina University in 1966. After graduation, McMahon worked as a receptionist at a corporate law firm and trained as a paralegal. In 1979, McMahon's husband, Vince McMahon, whose father owned the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF, now WWE), started his own wrestling company, and McMahon assisted with its administration. The McMahons founded Titan Sports, Inc. in […]
Anne Mulcahy
Anne M Mulcahy


Anne M. Mulcahy is the former chairperson of the board and the former chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation, located in Stamford, Conn. She was named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Xerox on August 1, 2001, and chairman on January 1, 2002. She retired as CEO in 2009. Mulcahy was born October 21, 1952, in Rockville Centre, New York. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English/journalism from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, in 1974. In addition to the Xerox board, she has been a member of the board […]
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump


Ivanka Trump is an American businesswoman and an official, unpaid advisor to President Donald Trump. She is the daughter of the president and his first wife, Ivana Trump. Trump was born October 30, 1981, in Manhattan, New York City. She graduated from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2004. Previous to serving as an advisor to President Trump, Trump was an executive vice president at the family-owned Trump Organization. She also served as a boardroom judge on her father's television […]
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey


Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, actress, producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 and was the highest-rated television program of its kind. Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, in rural Mississippi and spent much of her youth in inner-city Milwaukee. In high school, she was sent to Tennessee to live with her father, where she was was an honors student and joined the school's speech team, placing second in the nation […]