10 Well-Known Techies Who Are Now Politicians

Meg Whitman:
Meg Whitman, The President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard is a woman who successfully built her reputation in the corporate world that is largely dominated by men.
Whitman served in Mitt Romney's unsuccessful run for president and contested for governor of California as a Republican. She raised nearly $11 million in campaign funds in the first six months of this year. And the New York Times cited her as one of the women who is most likely to become the first female President of the United States.

Ross Perot:
Ross Perot, a computer salesman for IBM in the late 1950s and in 1962 founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Dallas is now a subsidiary of HP. He is best known as one of the most successful third-party candidates in American history. Perot ran for U.S. president in both 1992 and 1996 as a third-party candidate, receiving almost 19 percent of the popular vote in the '92 election captured by Bill Clinton.

Craig Benson:
Craig Benson was the founder and CEO of Cabletron Systems, a New Hampshire company started in 1983 to build networking equipment. In 2000, Cabletron was split up into four separate companies including Enterasys, which still sells network switching, routing and security products. Politically, Benson is a Republican who was elected as governor of New Hampshire in 2002 in a landslide, promising to bring his corporate and technological know-how to state government. But he lost his office during an election just two years after becoming the first New Hampshire governor in 78 years to be denied a second term.

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