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Barra was born in Royal Oak, Michigan to parents of Finnish descent. [6] [7] Her grandfather, Viktor Mäkelä, moved to the US and married Maria Luoma, a Finnish immigrant from Teuva. They lived in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, and had two children, including a son named Reino, [8] called Ray. Barra's father, Ray, married a second-generation ...
Barra is No. 1 on Fortune’s Most Power Women ranking this year, a spot she’s held three other times since becoming the first female CEO of a global automaker. Her decade-long tenure is more ...
Mary Barra's first year on the job as the first woman ever to lead a global automaker was about as rough as a CEO’s first year can be. Barra, a General Motors lifer, took the helm at GM in ...
How one of Mary Barra’s most promising investments went from GM’s ‘crown jewel’ to a liability. Emma Hinchliffe, Joseph Abrams. May 20, 2024 at 8:44 AM. Emily Elconin/Bloomberg—Getty Images.
On December 10, 2013, GM announced that Akerson will be replaced as CEO of GM by Mary Barra, effective January 15, 2014. [15] It is reported that Akerson's retirement was expedited by his wife's advanced stage cancer; [ 16 ] however, on March 1, 2014, The Carlyle Group announced that Akerson rejoined the firm as vice chairman and special ...
Mary Barra, chairman and CEO of General Motors [4] Corie Barry, CEO of Best Buy; Amanda Blanc, CEO of Aviva [5] Ana Botín, president of Banco Santander, Spain; Gail Koziara Boudreaux, CEO of Anthem [6] Angela Braly, former president and CEO of WellPoint (now Anthem) Heather Bresch, Mylan Inc; Roz Brewer, CEO of Walgreens [7]
General Motors CEO Mary Barra speaks to a crowd of journalists during a fireside chat with APA president Mike Wayland at the Gem Theatre in Detroit on Monday, December 4, 2023.
The Mary T. Barra Stock Index From March 2011 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Mary T. Barra joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -7.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a 11.3 percent return from the S&P 500.