The Henry Ford Museum has a new face for its board of trustees. The Detroit News reports Mark Reuss, General Motors executive vice president of Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain, has joined the board of trustees to serve alongside 20 other business leaders.
Reuss is the first GM employee to serve on the board for The Henry Ford, which includes the museum and Greenfield Village.
“As a lifelong Detroiter, I know exactly how important The Henry Ford is to our community, and beyond,” Reuss said in a statement. “It’s a national treasure. I couldn’t be happier to join its board of trustees and do what I can to help it continue to preserve, archive and encourage American innovation.”
Reuss’ latest addition to his work life will join his contributions as vice chairman of the GM Foundation, and serving on the Detroit Workforce Development Board.
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If you want my opinion he should be serving on GMs corporate Board along with Mary.
I expect Mark will replace Mary at some point as GM leaders only stay for so long.
Right now he is of more value doing what he is doing as he is the real product guy. He right now has been pushing the new product through and Mary has been giving him support to get the funding and approval for it.
Once get gets a few more years down the road I expect Mary to retire and Mark to move up and someone he has goomed to take his place.
The future is in the hands of people who were not the problem at GM in the past.
I agree Scott, I also think not only GM, but most corporate Boards should have at least two insiders on them. Mark would make a great CEO however i am not so sure that Dan Ammann would not get a more serious look when the time comes for Mary to step down. Considering he is the next in line of power under Mary, I can’t see the Board going to Mark over him. But I guess in corporate America anything is possible.
GM thugs being allowed in on a museum that bears the name of a legitimate American company? Ouch.
If i remember correctly, during the financial downturn, there was one company that pushed through with its own grit while another jumped into bed with Fiat and yet another went crying to Uncle Sam for billions of dollars that will never be repaid, just to keep the union hogs and criminals at the top alive. To top it off, they’re still building garbage.
Your beloved Ford would of went right down the tubes with the other 2 had there not been a bailout. Plus, the only reason Ford stayed afloat was because they borrowed billions by CORRUPT banks by mortgaging thier blue oval prior to the big financial fallout.