Mary Barra 01 — 08
Started inspecting
fender panels at 18.
Became CEO at 52.
Never left the company.
Portrait 02 — 08
Meet
Mary
Barra
Chair & Chief Executive Officer
General Motors
Chair & Chief Executive Officer
Kettering University
B.S.
Electrical Engineering
GM Institute
Stanford GSB
MBA
GM Fellowship
03 — 08
A few highlights
The Road
Age 18
Co‑op Student
→
B.S.
Electrical Eng.
↓
MBA
GM Fellowship
←
Plant Mgr
Detroit-Hamtramck
↓
VP HR
→
SVP Product
Global Dev.
↓
CEO
Appointed 2014
←
Chair
Appointed 2016
04 — 08
The
Big Win
The CEO Office
to  GENERAL MOTORS
Co‑op to CEO
0 yrs
Years from Co‑op to CEO
1st
Woman to lead a Big Three
$167B
Annual Revenue
05 — 08
Six weeks in, She inherited
the ignition-switch crisis.
She testified before Congress.
06 — 08
Career
Recent Wins
General Motors
All-EV by 2035
—
Committed to all-EV by 2035
—
$35B EV & autonomous investment
› Ultium battery platform
› Cruise autonomous division
—
Launched Hummer EV, Lyriq, Silverado EV
Boards & Governance
Industry Leadership
—
Chair, Business Roundtable
—
Board of Directors, The Walt Disney Company
—
Inducted, Automotive Hall of Fame (2023)
Mary Barra
07 — 08
Age 18
Inspected fender panels
on the Pontiac line.
Meanwhile
Her father worked
at Pontiac for 40 years.
Right Now
Steering a 116-year-old
company into the EV era.
By nature
Disciplined
Pragmatic
Steady
08 — 08
Ready for what's next
Mary Barra
mary.barra@gm.com
313.555.1908
linkedin.com/in/marybarra
Operator · Engineer · Executive