- Rick Wagoner
George Richard "Rick" Wagoner, Jr. (born February 9, 1953) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Rick Wagoner was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia and graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University in 1975 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977. After Harvard, he joined GM as an analyst in the treasurer's office. - Kirk Kerkorian
Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian (born June 6, 1917) is an American billionaire, and president/CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California. Kerkorian is known as one of the important figures in shaping the city of Las Vegas, Nevada and, with architect Martin Stern, Jr. the "father of the megaresort." Kerkorian splits his time between his residences in Beverly Hills and Nevada. One of the richest residents of Beverly Hills, … - Harley Earl
Harley J. Earl was an automotive stylist and engineer and industrial designer. He is most famous for his time at General Motors from 1927 until 1959. Earl was instrumental in establishing the industry or business of designing cars and the rules and principles behind the "Automobile Design" profession when none existed before in America. Basically, Harley Earl took the global automotive industry into the design business. - Carl Peter Forster
Carl-Peter Forster, President, GM Europe Carl-Peter Forster has been General Motors Vice President and President of GM Europe, based in Zurich, Switzerland, since June 2004. Effective January 1, 2006, he was appointed GM Group Vice President and a member of the GM Automotive Strategy Board and took over the role as the senior-ranking executive for GM’s activities in Europe. He has been Chairman of the Opel Supervisory Board since June, … - Larry Shinoda
Lawrence Kiyoshi (Larry) Shinoda (March 25, 1930 - November 13, 1997) was a noted automotive designer who was best known for his work on the Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Mustang. He was born in California and spent time in a Japanese internment camp during WW II. He attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles but was kicked out, and went to work first for Ford Motor Company in 1955, then Packard, then General Motors in late 1956. - Alfred P. Sloan
Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. - Bill Mitchell
William L. Mitchell was an important General Motors designer from the late 1930s to the late 1970s. He succeeded Harley Earl as Vice President for Styling in the late 1950s. He was particularly identified with the Chevrolet Corvette and the Buick Riviera, Although most agree his best accomplishment was the 1967 Cadillac Eldorado. - Dave McLellan
Dave McLellan (b. ????, Munising, Michigan) was an automotive engineer for General Motors, most notably the chief engineer for the Corvette from 1975 until his retirement in 1992. McLellan joined General Motors in 1959 after his graduation from Wayne State University. He was preceded as Corvette chief engineer by Zora Arkus-Duntov, who he worked briefly with prior to Zora's retirement. He is responsible for creating the C4 Corvette which was a revolution. - Dave Hill
David C. "Dave" Hill (b. 15 January, 1943) is an automotive engineer for General Motors. He is best known as the chief engineer for the 6th generation Chevrolet Corvette. He graduated from Michigan Tech, and began his career at GM in engine engineering for Cadillac in 1965, and moved into engineering management assignments for Cadillac in the mid-1970s, rising to the position of Engineering Program Manager in early 1992. - Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was a writer, management consultant and university professor. His writing focused on management-related literature. Peter Drucker made famous the term knowledge worker and is thought to have unknowingly ushered in the knowledge economy, which effectively challenges Karl Marx's world-view of the political economy. George Orwell credits Peter Drucker as one of the only writers to predict the German-Soviet Pact of 1939. - Robert Lutz
Robert "Bob" A. Lutz (born February 12, 1932, in Zurich, Switzerland) is the General Motors Vice Chairman of Product Development and Chairman of GM North America. He was previously an executive at Exide Technologies, and at Chrysler Corporation (now DaimlerChrysler), where he oversaw the development of the Dodge Viper, Plymouth Prowler and Chrysler LH platform automobiles. He was also an executive at Ford Motor Company, where he led the creation of the Ford Sierra, … - David Lee
David Allen Lee (born 1943) played football for the former Baltimore Colts and subsequently retired from a career as a General Motors executive in Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish, in northwestern Louisiana. He accumulated several sports records in punting for the Colts in a 12-year career from 1966 until 1978. Lee was born to Roy Lee (1916-1994) and the former Hazel Braley (1919-2007). He grew up in the small town of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish, … - Walter Reuther
Walter Philip Reuther was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic party in the mid 20th century. He was a leading liberal and supporter of the New Deal coalition. Reuther was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of a socialist brewery worker who had immigrated from Germany. In his entire career he was close to his brothers and co-workers Victor Reuther and Roy Reuther. - Jerry York
Jerome B. York, commonly known as Jerry York, is an American businessman, and the Chairman, President and CEO of Harwinton Capital. He was the former CFO of IBM and Chrysler. He was also CEO of Micro Warehouse and joined the board of directors of Apple Inc. in 1997. He is a chief aide to Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda investment company. Most recently, Kerkorian helped elect York to the board of directors of General Motors, … - Scaasi
Scaasi is an American fashion designer who has created gowns for First Lady Laura Bush, Jackie Kennedy and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. He was born Arnold Isaacs in Montreal, the son of a furrier. His decision for a career in fashion was largely determined by a trip to Australia at the age of fourteen to visit his Aunt Ida. His studies began at the Cotnoir-Capponi School of Design, … - Louis Chevrolet
Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (December 25, 1878, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland - June 6, 1941, Detroit, Michigan) was a racing driver and the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, which was acquired by General Motors and is their best-known brand worldwide, and in many cases synonymous with General Motors itself. In 1886 his family left Switzerland to live in Beaune in the Côte-d'Or "département" of France. - William C. Durant
William Crapo "Billy" Durant was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, the founder of General Motors and Chevrolet who created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was the grandson of Michigan governor Henry H. Crapo. William was a high school dropout, yet had become a leading manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles by 1890, based in Flint, Michigan. - Jill Lajdziak
Jill Lajdziak (pronounced La-Jek) is the General Manager of General Motors' Saturn division. In 2005, she was named one of the 100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry, along with 19 other GM colleagues, which made GM the most represented company on the list. Jill has two children, one of whom is of legal driving age (16 years old as of an interview posted 8/15/2006) and drives a Saturn VUE sport utility vehicle. - Stan O'Neal
E. Stanley "Stan" O'Neal is the present Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was a member of the board of directors of General Motors from 2001 through 2006. - Charles Kettering
Charles Franklin Kettering, also known as "Boss" Kettering, was born in Loudonville, Ohio, USA the fourth of five children of Jacob Kettering and Martha Hunter Kettering. He was a farmer, school teacher, mechanic, engineer, scientist, inventor and social philosopher. He had poor eyesight, but acquired an electrical engineering degree from Ohio State University in 1904. While attending Ohio State University he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. - Zora Arkus-Duntov
Zora Arkus-Duntov was a brilliant engineer, a daring racecar driver, and the "godfather" of the Corvette. He was the first man to hold the title of chief engineer for the Corvette program and was responsible for transforming that car from merely an attractive-looking roadster to the powerful American sports car it has become. Zora was born Zachary Arkus on Christmas Day, 1909 in Belgium to parents of Russian-Jewish descent. - Ed Cole
Edward Nicholas Cole (b. September 17 1909, Marne, Michigan - d. May 2 1977, Mendon, Michigan) was an automotive executive for General Motors. The son of a dairy farmer, Cole aspired to be an automotive engineer and enrolled in General Motors Institute. He was forced to drop out for financial reasons in 1933, and was offered a job as a lab assistant. He worked in engineering, rising to co-head a team (with Harry Barr) that developed the 1949 Cadillac V8. - Jonathan Browning
Jonathan Browning is General Motors Europe Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Aftersales and the Chairman of Vauxhall Motors. He previously worked for Ford, where he was the Managing Director of Jaguar Cars. He is an alumnus of the University of Nottingham. - Bryan Nesbitt
Bryan Nesbitt is an automobile designer. Currently working for General Motors, Nesbitt designed the Chevrolet HHR and has been criticized for the similarity of that vehicle to his previous Chrysler PT Cruiser design for Chrysler. Since February 2004, Nesbitt has been the Executive Director at GM Europe's design center. In this capacity, he heads the GM Europe design organization, responsible for all Opel, Saab and Vauxhall design activities. - Charles Stewart Mott
Charles Stewart Mott was a US industrialist and philanthropist who was born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were John Coon Mott and Isabella Turnball Stewart. He began working for his father and uncle, Fred Mott who had purchsed a bicycle wheel making business (Weston-Mott Co.). After the death of his father, C. S. Mott was appointed superintendent of the company by his uncle. C. S. Mott moved to Flint, Michigan in 1905 in a merger with Buick. - Maureen Kempston Darkes
Vera Maureen Kempston Darkes, OC, O.Ont, LL.B, LL.D (born c. 1949) is a Canadian lawyer and automotive executive who is the General Motors Group Vice President; President, GM Latin America, Africa and Middle East; a member of the General Motors Automotive Strategy Board, since January 1 2002; and holds the highest operating post ever achieved by a woman at General Motors. - John F. Smith Jr.
John Francis "Jack" Smith, Jr. (born April 6, 1938 in Worcester, MA) is currently the non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Delta Air Lines. Smith has been a member of Delta's board of directors since 2000. From 1996 to 2003, Smith was chairman of the board of directors of General Motors, and was that company's CEO from 1992 to 2000. He joined GM as a payroll auditor in 1961, moving to its financial group in New York City in 1966. - John Heinricy
John Heinricy is an automotive engineer and noted racecar driver. Heinricy has had a long and distinguished career at General Motors, serving as assistant chief engineer for the Corvette and as Director of the GM Performance Division. He also campaigns a variety of GM products in SCCA competition, winning the annual runoffs in Corvettes, Firebirds, and Camaros. He has also won SCCA National events in Cobalts. - Denny Mooney
Dennis M. "Denny" Mooney (born 1956) is the American-born chairman and managing director of GM Holden Ltd., an automobile manufacturer based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Mooney joined General Motors in 1978, and held positions such as head of the Buick-Cadillac-Oldsmobile N-car chassis development team, and executive director for vehicle performance at GM Engineering until September 2003, when he was named chairman and managing director of Holden. - Mason Hawkins
Otis "Mason" Hawkins is a noted investor, who manages Southeastern Asset Management. Prior to founding Southeastern, Hawkins was Director of Research at First Tennessee Investment Management (1974-1975) and Director of Research at Atlantic National Bank (1972-1973). Hawkins received a B.A. in Finance from the University of Florida in 1970 and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia in 1971. Hawkins does not shy away from buying out-of-favor stocks. - Wayne Cherry
Wayne K Cherry (b. 1937) is a noted American-born car designer is responsible for nearly all of General Motors' European designs since the 1970s, and GM's worldwide designs since the early 1990s. In an age of high profile 'designer' names in the car industry, Cherry is hardly a household name, yet his designs spanning five decades easily count among the most influential in the industry. - George David
George David is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United Technologies Corporation. David was elected UTC’s President in 1992 and Chief Executive Officer in 1994. He joined UTC’s Otis Elevator subsidiary in 1975 and became its President in 1986. David was born 1942 in Pennsylvania. His mother's name was Margaret; his father, Charles Wendell was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and one of America's first Rhodes scholars. - Eiji Toyoda
Eiji Toyoda born 12 September 1913 near Nagoya in Japan, was a prominent Japanese industrialist, and was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as CEO and later Chairman, a position he held until 1994. Born into a family of textile manufacturers, Eiji Toyoda is the son of Heihachi Toyoda, the brother of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. - Harlow Curtice
Harlow Herbert Curtice was an American auto industry executive. He was raised in Eaton Rapids. He graduated from the Ferris Institute in 1914. After moving to Flint, Michigan in 1914, Curtice began his meteoric rise at General Motors (GM). He started as a bookkeeper for GM's AC Spark Plug Division, becoming that company's comptroller at just 21, and president at 36. He ascended to the vice presidency of GM in 1948, … - Paul Ingrassia
Paul Ingrassia is president of Dow Jones Newswires, a unit of Dow Jones & Company. Ingrassia was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting along with Joseph B. White of "The Wall Street Journal", for their often exclusive coverage of the management turmoil at General Motors. They also received the Gerald Loeb Award that year in the deadline/beat writing category for the same coverage. - Donaldson Brown
He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1902. He completed a postgraduate course at Cornell University in 1903 by passing the senior electrical engineering course examination. On completion of his college education, he sold electrical machinery for a General Electric interest. He was a salesman of commercial explosives for E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company for four years, starting in 1909. - Norman Bel Geddes
Norman Bel Geddes (April 27 1893 - May 8 1958) was an American theatrical and industrial designer who focused on aerodynamics. Born in Adrian, Michigan, he began his career in 1918 as the scene designer for the Metropolitan Opera. In 1929, he designed a 9-deck amphibian airliner which incorporated areas for deck-games, an orchestra, a gymnasium, a solarium, and two airplane hangars. Bel Geddes designed the General Motors Pavilion, known as Futurama, … - Henry M. Leland
Henry Martyn Leland (16 February, 1843-26 March, 1932) (born Barton, Vermont, died Detroit, Michigan) was a machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur. He learned precision engineering and manufacturing in the firearms industry, where ultrafine tolerances were required. He applied this expertise to the nascent motor industry as early as 1870 as a principal in the machine shop Leland & Faulconer, and later was a supplier of engines to Ransom E. Olds's company, … - Leon Sullivan
Reverend Dr. Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 - April 24, 2001) was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African-Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist. Sullivan died on April 24, 2001, of leukemia at a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital. He was 78. - Donny Deutsch
Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch (born November 22, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an advertising executive and talk show host. Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., a $2.7 billion marketing company founded by his father that is the 10th-largest U.S. agency. In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for a reported $300 million. He is also the managing partner of Deutsch Open City, an independent production company.
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