By James Clark | email
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – Ed Whitacre Jr., former Lubbock resident, is now the permanent C.E.O. of General Motors. The announcement came Monday morning. Whitacre had been the interim C.E.O.
Whitacre is a Texas Tech graduate, and former Texas Tech Regent. More recently he was the CEO of SBC Communications as it bought out AT&T and the merged company became the new AT&T. He also serves on the boards of Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Exxon Mobil.
Recently GM also announced former Lubbock District Attorney John Montford also hired on as a lobbyist for the company.
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