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Mary Barra is the smart, beautiful CEO of the famous Fortune 500 General Motors company in the US. She has been functioning in this capacity since 2014 becoming the first woman to head a primary automobile manufacturing company across the globe.
Barra’s history with General Motors began at a quite unbelievable age even before she went to college perhaps; this has contributed to her success story and also earned her the qualifications and experience to head such big company even ahead of her male counterparts.
Mary Barra’s Biography
Barra was born to Ray and Eva Makela in Royal Oak, Michigan on the Christmas eve of 1961. Her parents are of Finnish descent. Her ancestors are reportedly from Kankaanpää in Satakunta province of Köyliö. She is not an only child as she has a brother named Paul Makela. It is of interest to note that her father worked for Pontiac car factory in Detroit, for four decades. This is obviously how Mary developed the love for automobiles.
She attended Waterford schools, Waterford, Michigan. After graduating from Waterford Mott High School, she took up a job in an automobile industry in order to pay for her college tuition. Mary Barra would later bag a BSc in electrical engineering from Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute). She also bagged a Masters in Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1990.
In 2014, she received an honorary degree in the University of Michigan after delivering the Spring commencement address for her Ann Arbor campus in Michigan stadium.
Barra kicked off her career in 1980 with General Motors as a co-op student, her duties then included managing the Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly plant. Through hard work and determination, she began to rise. In 2008, she was elected vice president of Global Manufacturing Engineering and later Global Human Resources the following year.
Mary was elected chairwoman of the Board of Directors of General Motors company on January 4, 2014. Currently, she has been serving as CEO of General Motors since January 15, 2016.
She is a globe taker who is keen on seeing the change the world deserves. While working in these offices, Mary Barra had her team responsible as well as keen to see to the proper design, engineering, and launch of General Motors worldwide. She is an astute and unflinching leader who through her leadership has brought good tidings to General Motors upon her resumption as the CEO at General Motors.
General Motors even easily beat her rival company Ford with a 3.6 percent on earnings before taxes and interest. In 2017, their average vehicle sales price hit a record of $36,000
This resilient profit of General Motors could only be possible with Mary Barra’s unflinching support and leadership. She currently serves on the board of Directors on Walt Disney company, the Stanford University Board of trustees and the Detroit Economic Club.
She is also a member of The Business Council and At-Large Board member of the business roundtable where she serves on social issues committee too. In 2014, Times Magazine named her one of its “100 Most Influential People in the World. Two years later (2016), she was named among a business forum committee assembled by to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues but she left the following year as a result of Trump’s response to the Charlottesville protests.
In 2019, Mary Barra emerged first in the autos and auto parts sector in Institutional Investor‘s yearly survey of top executives. Isn’t Mary Barra just your everyday woman?
Salary And Net Worth
As at February 2019, it was revealed that the net worth of the beautiful, smart blonde CEO has hit $64million dollars
It is not a surprise however as the smart lady has made quite a mark in the automobile industry through hard work and determination. She currently owns over 39, 095 units of General Motors stock worth a whopping sum of $42, 063, 158, this is in addition to the $21, 958, 000 she makes as the Chairman of the board and Chief executive Officer at General Motors.
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Who Is Mary Barra’s Husband? – Anthony Barra
Mary Barra is married to Anthony Barra, an engineering consultant she met while studying at Kettering University. They are both involved in some humanitarian works. In 2014, they both served as the chairpersons of the Detroit International Wine Auction. Through the College for Creative Studies, they also raised community arts programs and scholarships worth $2.4 million.
They are proud parents of two kids, Nicholas and Rachel Barra. The couple lives in Northville (a suburb of Detroit).
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