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VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, CHRYSLER GROUP AND MERCEDES-BENZ NAFTA * DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORP. * AGE 44
Education:
* B.S., electrical engineering, General Motors Institute
* M.S., electrical engineering, Purdue University
What your college professors didn't teach you: "Politics. There was never any mention as I came through school about how to be successful in meeting the political environment. Whether as an entry-level engineer in the plant or a middle manager in competition and collaboration with fellow managers, or as a leader now. The politics in the corporate environment is not even discussed. It is all on-the-job training."
First automotive job: Engineering hybridelectric vehicles at General Motors in 1986
Most fun automotive job: "This is it right now. IT (Information technology) has the ability to have the greatest impact in the work of making cars and trucks. In every single aspect of conceiving cars and building cars and selling cars, IT has a role to play."
Biggest mistake and what you learned: "Defining myself as an engineer. I was completely wrong about that. One of my mentors at General Motors helped me understand. It is a definition of what I am underneath an engineer, which is a change agent. After that, my career really took off. I moved from engineering into manufacturing and then...