Mary Barra
Mary Teresa Barra (* 24. December 1961 as Mary Teresa Makela in Waterford , Michigan ) is an American manager . In January 2014, she replaced Daniel Akerson as CEO of General Motors , before that she was Executive Vice President of the company. In 2014, Time Magazine selected Barra as one of the 100 Most Influential Leaders in the World. Forbes listed her as the fifth most influential woman in the world in 2016.
Life
Barra's parents are from Finland . Her father worked as a locksmith for Pontiac . She, too, began her professional career at Pontiac in 1981. She studied electrical engineering at the General Motors Institute (now renamed Kettering University). In 1990 followed - with a grant from General Motors - the Master of Business Administration at the Stanford Graduate School of Business . After 30 years with the company before assuming overall responsibility as CEO, she most recently headed product development with global responsibility, where she was responsible for a budget of approximately 15 billion US dollars. She was a member of the supervisory board of GM's German subsidiary Adam Opel AG .
In 2018 she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering .
Barra is married with two children.
literature
- Mary Barra , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 07/2014 from February 11, 2014, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ About GM: Mary T. Barra . General Motors. Archived from the original on January 21, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
- ↑ Spiegel online, viewed January 28, 2014
- ↑ http://time.com/70843/mary-barra-2014-time-100/
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com/power-women/list/#tab:overall
- ↑ Alex Taylor: Mary Barra: GM's next CEO? . In: CNN / Fortune . Archived from the original on December 14, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
- ^ A Look at Mary Barra, GM's First Female CEO . Wall Street Journal. December 10, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Miriam Braun: Business Heads 2014: Mary Barra - the new boss of General Motors , article from January 8, 2014 in the series From Economy and Society of Deutschlandfunk
- ^ Mary T. Barra Mary Barra: Executive Profile & Biography . Bloomberg Business Week . Retrieved December 12, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barra, Mary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barra, Mary Teresa; Makela, Mary Teresa (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waterford (Michigan) |