Carlos Gutierrez

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Carlos Gutierrez

Carlos Miguel Gutierrez (actually Gutiérrez ) (born  November 4, 1953 in Havana , Cuba ) is an American businessman and politician ( Republican Party ). He was the 35th Secretary of Commerce of the United States and was previously the chairman of the board and board of directors of the Kellogg Company .

Life

Gutierrez was born the son of a pineapple plantation owner in Cuba. When the family feared they would be expropriated in the Cuban Revolution, they fled to the USA in 1960. Like many other refugees from Cuba, she settled in Miami . A few years later, he and his family acquired US citizenship .

The family moved again, this time to Mexico City , because Pedro Gutiérrez, Carlos' father, had accepted a job at the local branch of the HJ Heinz Company . The father later founded his own company, in which his son Carlos also worked. When his father's company went bankrupt, Carlos Gutiérrez took a job as a driver at the Mexico branch of the Kellogg Company ( Kellogg de México ) and delivered cornflakes to the local shops.

Gutiérrez studied business administration at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Querétaro , Mexico . During his studies, he heard from a friend that the Kellogg Company was looking for employees for their marketing department and he found employment there in 1975.

He is married to Edilia Gutierrez and has a son and two daughters with her.

Career

In 1975 he joined Kellogg as a sales representative and management trainee . One of his early jobs included delivering delivery trucks to local stores. He rose quickly within the group and in January 1990 became joint vice president of product development at the company's headquarters in Battle Creek , Michigan , and also executive vice president of Kellogg USA that same year . In January 1999 he was first elected to the board of directors and in April of that year he was appointed president and chairman of the board.

On October 29, 2004, he was introduced as the new Secretary of Commerce in the Bush cabinet, replacing Donald Evans . On the same day he resigned from all posts at Kellogg; James M. Jenness was appointed as the new CEO . Gutierrez was confirmed by the Senate on January 24, 2005 and sworn in on February 7, 2005. With the end of George W. Bush's tenure in January 2009, Gutierrez also left the government.

In 2010 he started working for Citigroup .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ex-White House Budget Director Joins Citigroup , New York Times, December 9, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Gutierrez, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutiérrez, Carlos Miguel (full name); Gutierrez, Carlos Miguel (simple notation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US Secretary of Commerce
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba