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The building has secured the highest possible 4 Green Globes from the Green Building Initiative. It got a rating of an overall 85% on the Green Globes rating scale and 100% for its design and its sustainable performance measures. [15] [16] Green Globes is a nationally recognized green building guidance and assessment program in the United ...
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) was founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a successful IBM salesman who first-hand observed how inefficiently IBM's customers typically were using their expensive systems. Somewhat to IBM's chagrin, since the company wanted to sell as many computers as possible, Perot ...
H. Ross Perot and eight associates founded Perot Systems in June 1988 after having sold EDS to General Motors. Before its acquisition by Dell Inc. in September 2009, Perot Systems was a Fortune 1000 corporation with more than 23,000 associates and annual revenue (2008) of $2.8 billion. The company maintained offices in more than 25 countries ...
Ross Perot was born in Texarkana, Texas in 1930, the son of Lula May (née Ray) and Gabriel Ross Perot, [3] a commodity broker specializing in cotton contracts. [4] [5] He had an older brother, Gabriel Perot Jr., who died as a toddler. [6]
Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport (IATA: AFW, ICAO: KAFW, FAA LID: AFW) is a public airport 14 miles (23 km) north of the central business district of Fort ...
Perot chairs The Perot Group, which manages the Perot family's various interests, including real estate, oil and gas, and financial investments. He developed the Fort Worth Alliance Airport and is a large real estate developer. Hillwood's residential division is building Harvest, a $1 billion, 1,150-acre development in Northlake and Argyle.
The new concert center was named in his honor in 1986 at the request of Ross Perot, who made a $10 million contribution to the building fund for the naming rights. It is the permanent home of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Chorus , as well as the primary performing venue of the Dallas Wind Symphony and several other ...
Ross Perot (1930–2019), United States business leader and presidential candidate; H. Ross Perot, Jr. (born 1958), United States businessman and son of Ross Perot; Alfred Pérot (1863–1925), French physicist; William Bennett Perot (1791–1871), early postmaster of Bermuda; see Perot Island, Bermuda; Perot de Garbalei (fl. 1300), author of ...