Ross Perot

Henry Ross Perot (* June 27, 1930 in Texarkana, Texas) is an American businessman and politician.

Career in business

After he worked several years at IBM as a salesman, Perot founded in 1962 with the Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS ), the first according to the company IT services company in the world. Perot sold the company in 1984 at the General Motors and remained until 1987, Chairman of the Board. With the sale, he earned 3.1 billion U.S. dollars.

Perot has a personal fortune of $ 3.6 billion.

Perot Systems Corporation

The Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER ) is an information technology service provider based in Plano. It was founded on June 1, 1988 by Ross Perot and is in the U.S., Europe, India and Mexico, and also present in China since 2008. Perot family holds a 25 percent stake. The company has approximately 23,100 employees and was acquired in September 2009 for $ 3.9 billion from Dell.

Hostage rescue

During his tenure at EDS Perot organized a group headed by the former Special Forces colonel Arthur D. Simons. This should liberate two of Perot's employees, who had been commissioned in 1979 as a hostage in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. The group waited until the prison was stormed by a group of insurgents, and then transport it to the unclear situation, the two employees about the Turkey out of the country. Ken Follett processed the story in On the wings of the eagle to a " fact thriller from Iran."

Policy

Perot ran as a non-party candidate in the presidential election in 1992, when it reached 18.91 % of the vote. In Maine ( 30.44 %) and Utah ( 27.34 %) he even reached the second place, ahead of George Bush or Bill Clinton. This was the greatest success of a candidate, who had had not one of the two major parties (Republican or Democrat), since the presidential election in 1912, when former President Theodore Roosevelt because of its non- nomination by the Republicans with their own newly founded party, Progressive Party came into office and had reached 27.4 % of the vote. In 1995, Perot, the Reform Party, whose candidate he was in the presidential election in 1996, but when he received only 8.4%. In the election in 2000, he did not run.

Works

• Joining Forces: How America overcomes his serious crisis. Translated from English by Walter Hofmann. Exchange -Verlag, Kulmbach, 1990, ISBN 3-922669-04-2.
• My Life & The Principles for Success. Summit Publication Group, Arlington, Texas 1996, ISBN 1-56530-237-0. ( Autobiography)
• Ross Perot, Paul Simon: The Dollar Crisis: A Blueprint to Help Rebuild the American Dream. The Summit Publishing Group 1996, ISBN 1-56530-217-6.