Wesley G. Bush has been elected to the General Motors Board of Directors, bringing the number of board members to 13, 12 of whom are non-employee directors.
Wesley “Wes” Bush currently serves as the chairman of Northrop Grumman’s Board of Directors and served as the chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman from 2010 through 2018.
In a statement, GM said Bush has “served in various leadership roles,” at Northrop Grumman, including “as the company’s president and chief operating officer, corporate vice president and chief financial officer, and president of its Space Technology sector.”
Bush also served in various leadership roles at Michigan-based aeronautics company and automotive supplier TRW prior to its acquisition by Northrop Grumman in 2001.
Bush, 57, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has completed the Executive Management Program at the University of California Los Angeles. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
According to Reuters, Bush also serves on the boards “of several non-profit organizations, including the Aerospace Industries Association, the Business-Higher Education Forum, Conservation International, INOVA Health Systems, the Naval Academy Foundation and the USO.”
In a statement made previously, General Motors CEO Mary Barra said Bush would “bring strong financial acumen, excellent strategic instincts and an ability to think broadly about complex business issues to our board.”
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Bush’s appointment comes as the automaker is looking to expand its GM Defense division. Northrop Grumman is the world’s fifth largest arms trading company, giving Bush a wealth of knowledge in the sector that should prove to be extremely beneficial to the future of GM Defense.
Last year, Jami Miscik, the CEO and vice chairman of New York based consulting form Kissinger Associates, also joined GM’s board. Devin Wenig, eBay’s president and CEO, joined the automaker’s board in 2018 as well, just after the automaker announced intentions to expand its e-commerce business and monetize in-car apps for shopping and ordering.
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Glad he can bring some experience to the board as an engineer. Those with engineering background just has a different way of seeing things than an all Bachelor Science & Business graduates board would. Just helps rounding out the company board for better decision making.
Remember, Machete Mary is also the Chairman of the Board and CEO. She will bring in people who go along with her agenda no matter how skewed it is.
Market trends are always a moving target and the GM board decided to shut down five plants not that they wanted to, but customers told them we don’t want sedans in the quantity needed to support these plants. But it’s ok for most of the appliance & TV’s market to buy products made in Korea. What do you own? Look at all the thousand of job that would be here if all Korean appliances were made in the USA. Then there be more workers that could buy sedans and perhaps many from the auto industry that was laid off!
I make it a point to buy American anything whenever I can, including appliances. Sadly, most consumer electronics have been move overseas I have no choice.
Barra and her incompetent management team are solely responsible for the demise of the plants. Ford and FCA recognized the trends almost four years ago and responded accordingly. Toyota and Honda are making the appropriate adjustments in their plants. Barra just sat back, did nothing, and swung the ax after all the hot selling product was moved to Mexico. Remember Oshawa was building overflow for the Equinox, and CAMI was building the Canyon.
BTW, these companies’ respective CEOs made nowhere near as much money as Machete Mary.