| Rick Wagoner  AKA G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.
Born: 9-Feb-1953
Birthplace: Wilmington, DE
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Business Nationality: United States
Executive summary: CEO of General Motors Raised in Richmond, Virginia, 6'4" in height. Started work for GM as an analyst in their New York office. In the 1990s he resuscitated GM's Brazilian operations, and headed North American Operations (NAO) from 1994. Wagoner likes to learn all aspects of the business, not to the point of micromanaging but wanting to be aware of small details. Under his watch, GM suffered from a number of strikes, including a particularly damaging one in 1998, costing the company $2B in profits that year. He succeeded John F. Smith Jr. as CEO in 2000. As CEO, he dropped the long-lived Oldsmobile as a brand, the final car rolling off the assembly line in 2004. University: BA Economics, Duke University (1975)
University: MBA, Harvard Business School (1977)
Administrator: Trustee, Duke University
Administrator: Board of Dean's Advisors, Harvard Business School
General Motors President and CEO (2000-)
General Motors CFO (1992-2000)
Member of the Board of General Motors (1998-, as Chairman, 2003-)
Ashcroft 2000
The Business Council
Business Roundtable
Catalyst Board of Directors
Council on Competitiveness
Detroit Renaissance Board of Directors
Appears on the cover of:
Business Week, 1-Feb-1999, DETAILS: Reviving GM, BYLINE: Kathleen Kerwin, with Joann Muller
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