Carlos Gutierrez

Carlos Miguel Gutierrez ( originally Gutiérrez ) (* November 4, 1953 in Havana, Cuba) is an American businessman and politician ( Republican). He was the 35th Minister of Commerce of the United States and previously the Executive Board and Supervisory Board Chairman of the Kellogg Company.

Life

Gutierrez was born the son of a pineapple plantation owner in Cuba. When the family had feared to be expropriated in the Cuban Revolution, she fled in 1960 in the United States. Like many other refugees from Cuba, they settled in Miami. A few years later he bought with his family along the U.S. citizenship.

The family moved again, this time to Mexico City because Pedro Gutierrez, the father of Carlos, a job at the local branch of the HJ Heinz Company had assumed. The father later founded his own company with Lip, in the first and son Carlos worked. As his father's company went bankrupt, Carlos Gutierrez took a job as a driver at the Mexico branch of Kellogg Company ( Kellogg de México ) and delivered cornflakes out to the stores located there.

Gutierrez studied business administration at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Querétaro, Mexico. During his studies, he heard from a friend that the Kellogg Company employees for their marketing department search, and found there in 1975 finally a job.

He is married to Edilia Gutierrez and the couple have a son and two daughters.

Career

In 1975, he joined Kellogg as a sales representative and management trainee. One of his early tasks included the supplying of local stores by truck. He quickly rose to the Group in January 1990 and became joint vice-president for product development in the company headquarters Battle Creek, Michigan, and even in the same year executive vice president of Kellogg USA. In January 1999 he was first elected to the board of company directors and appointed in April this year as President and Chief Executive Officer.

On 29 October 2004 he was unveiled as the new Minister of Economic Affairs in the Cabinet Bush, and thus the successor of Donald Evans. On the same day he resigned from all positions at Kellogg back; as the new CEO James M. Jenness was determined. Gutierrez was confirmed on 24 January 2005 by the Senate and sworn in on 7 February 2005. With the end of the tenure of George W. Bush in January 2009, Gutierrez resigned from the government.