Woman in power at GM

Posted on 10-12-2013 at 19:04 by ii – 37 Comments”

Dan Akerson, move on. Mary Barra takes the helm. And yes, that is a woman.

It is for the first time in the history of General Motors that a woman at the top of the company. A GM newbie is Barra (51) certainly not. They came in the ’80s as an electrical engineer at the auto company in may, shortly after the manager of a factory to be. She eventually became responsible for the development and quality of all GM cars and trucks.

She follows Dan Akerson on January 15. The 65-year-old big GM boss, who the last time nothing shows in the overlap between Opel and Chevrolet, waving there since 2010, the scepter, and going a bit earlier than expected retirement, because his wife suffers from cancer.

We do have just a scoop on top. Not only for GM, this is a first timer, Barra is the first woman to ever is the CEO should call a car manufacturer of this size. Chapeau.