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埃德·惠塔克里(Edward Whitacre)——美国通用汽车公司董事长兼临时CEO

[编辑]惠塔克里简介
  埃德·惠塔克里(Edward Whitacre)1941年11月4日出生。惠塔克里在AT&T工作了44年,在电信行业里是一个不折不扣的大腕。惠塔克里最大的成就莫过于2006年以860亿美元收购BellSouth Corp 。

  惠塔克里身边的人评价他:“如果他信赖你,他会提供一切的支持。但是如果哪天你把他惹毛了,他会对你毫不留情。”

  韩德胜刚上任的时候,惠塔克里对身边的人表示韩德胜是那时候最合适不过的人选。而如今,他却以“韩德胜推进重组计划过程中与董事会产生意见分歧”为由解雇了韩德胜。

  在通用员工的而言里,惠塔克里是一个和善的领导。他都会主动地跟各级管理人员及员工打招呼。他还很善于倾听员工工作中的烦恼。

惠塔克里2009年6月取代肯特克瑞萨(Kent Kresa)成为通用的新董事长。美国当地时间12月1号,塔克里对外宣布,接受韩德胜的辞职,并表示在找到合适的人选之前,自己将临时担任通用CEO一职。
  Edward E. "Ed" Whitacre, Jr. (born November 4, 1941) is a former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc. He served as national president of the Boy Scouts of America from 1998-2000.

[编辑]Life and career
  Whitacre was born in Ennis, Texas. He began his career with Southwestern Bell in 1963 as a facility engineer. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and graduated from Texas Tech University with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering.

  In October 1988, Whitacre was made president and chief operating officer of Regional Bell Operating Company, Southwestern Bell Corporation. Two years later, Whitacre became chairman of the board and chief executive officer. In 1995, Southwestern Bell Corporation changed its name to SBC Communications. Whitacre led SBC through a series of mergers and acquisitions in building the largest provider of both local long distance telephone services and wireless service (through its Cingular division) in the United States. These acquisitions included Pacific Telesis (1997), SNET (1998), Comcast Cellular (1999), Ameritech (1999) and AT&T (2005), from which the post-merger company took its name, as well as the 2006 acquisition of Bell South.

  On June 23, 2006, he and the CEO of BellSouth were brought in under the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee following the AT&T-BellSouth merger. Most questions to Whitacre were regarding possible customer information leaks to the NSA.citation needed Whitacre's compensation for 2006 totaled $61 million, $17 million in 2005, and about $14 million in 2004.

  On April 27, 2007, at the AT&T annual stockholders meeting, Whitacre announced his intent to retire as Chairman of the Board and chief executive officer at AT&T Inc., effective June 3. The Board of Directors elected Randall Stephenson to succeed Whitacre as the new CEO and Chairman of the Board. On June 4th, 2007 Ed Whitacre retired with Randall Stephenson taking the helm the following morning (June 5th, 2007). Upon retirement, Whitacre was eligible for a $158 million payout from AT&T. Following retirement, under his employment contract Whitacre is entitled to receive some continuing benefits, including automobile use, access to AT&T's corporate aircraft for up to ten hours per month, use of AT&T office facilities and support staff , home security, club memberships, and payment of applicable taxes resulting from these benefits, except for use of the aircraft. In addition, Whitacre has a three year consulting contract with AT&T for which he will be paid about $1 million annually.

  BusinessWeek reported that, though the CEO of one of the largest and most influential names in telecommunications and its surrounding technology, Whitacre did not use email or have a computer in his office.It has also been reported that Whitacre offered Stephenson three words of advice via text message when the executive change was announced: "Give 'em hell".

  On June 9, 2009, General Motors named Whitacre as chairman. He took the position when the automaker emerged from bankruptcy proceedings on July 10, 2009.

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