<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Ceo]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Ceo]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/ceo http://jalopnik.com/tag/ceo <![CDATA[New CEO At General Motors To Get $9 Million]]> Dan Akerson will get $9 million a year for liberating General Motors from Democrats. [SEC] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5635070&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[VW of America CEO Stefan Jacoby Moves To Volvo]]> VW America CEO Stefan Jacoby's moving to Volvo. It's what the (safe) people want. [Kilometer] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5572043&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ten Alternative Company Cars For CEOs]]> Even CEOs have to step out of their private jets and onto our roads from time to time. Here are your choices for the ten best ground-transport options for the corporate titans of the world. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5553904&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer Has Two Thumbs, Is Not Afraid To Use One Of Them]]> "And so I said to the press, I said, 'I like the BMW 5-Series, and I think that, in this Swiss land, we should move away from all this 'neutrality' nonsense. I have an opinion! Here it is!" More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5483470&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Honda NSX Chassis Designer Takes Over Honda]]> With any company, executives are usually carefully chosen from the ranks of brown-nosing ladder-climbers, not talented automotive visionaries like the designer of Honda's NSX all-aluminum chassis. That hasn't stopped Takanobu Ito from just becoming Honda President and CEO. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5311089&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[AutoNation CEO Says High Gas Prices Are Good For You, Automakers]]> Mike Jackson, Chairman and CEO of AutoNation (and thus America's number one car salesman), finally breaks taboo and utters the unthinkable: High gas prices are a good thing. "You have to tell the American people the truth," he says. "Energy costs are going to be higher." Oh Mike, Mike, Mike. Don't you know that the first rule of Car Club is that gas will always be cheap? And if it isn't, then you make it cheap, a-la Chrysler's "Let's Refuel America?" Mr. Jackson's poignant, thoughtful wacky rationale after the jump. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=395495&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Former Racer In as Tesla Chief]]> Whether it's shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic or a key decision that's going to suddenly make everything better is unclear, but at least Tesla Motors is trying to fix things by appointing Ze'ev Drori as C.E.O. Mr. Drori has twice turned around smaller companies, leading them to buyouts by major competitors. He's also apparently done some competitive racing (though nothing major that we can find). More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=327897&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Performance Pays! Visteon Loses $163 Million In 2006, CEO Gets $10.8 Million Compensation Package]]> I love that C-level execs are the only level in which compensation packages are rarely tied to overall corporate performance. Whether it was FoMoCo's exorbitant compensation packages for Mark "Flexmaster" Fields, Don "French Pastry" LeClair or Alan "Well-Paid New Guy" Mulally we saw last week, or whether it's this week with Michael Johnston, the CEO of FoMoCo's spin-off auto supplier, Visteon — they rarely appear to be constructed in such a way as to reward the performance of the actual company. The Freep's reporting today:
"Johnston was paid $10.8 million last year...compensation included $1 million in base salary, $3.3 million in stock awards, $4.2 million in option awards and $185,349 for personal use of corporate aircraft. Johnston also realized $782,792 on the value of stock awards vested in 2006...Visteon also disclosed a package estimated to be worth as much as $27.1 million if Johnston is terminated without cause following any change in control of the company."
And how's Mr. Johnston's company doing? Oh wait —
"Visteon...lost $163 million in 2006, but that was an improvement over the $270 million loss in 2005."
Oh, well that makes sense — they lost $100 million less this year than last. By all means, take your reward Mr. Johnston — for all of your hard work at making your company profitable less craptastic than the year before. – Ray Wert More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=251018&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Taking the Work Out of Executive Car-Buying]]> Maybe it's the aging punker in us, but for some reason whenever we read about lists of things that're perfect for the CEO, it makes us wanna grab some MD 20/20 empties, fill 'em with the cheapest gas in town and fling them at downtown office buildings in a heartfelt, yet futile blow against the empire until we're dragged kicking and screaming off to the hoosegow after being bloodied by the boots of the Man. This list, from Chief Executive magazine, cheeses us off in just that special way. In fact, in exactly the same way that it cheesed us off that an old boss of ours kept self-help books on his office bookshelf assuring him that it was fine to be rich. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=129001&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Honda CEO Hints at V10 in NSX Successor]]> In his mid-year speech, earlier tooday, Honda CEO Takeo Fukui indicated the successor to the erstwhile Acura/Honda NSX sports car is several years from launch:
"We are now focused on the development of a new model to succeed the NSX for a new era. We would like to debut a new super sports car equipped with a V10 engine in three to four years. Please look forward to seeing the NSX successor."
A V10? Yep, we're looking forward. We're just wondering what else they'll put that ten-banger in. [Thanks to Jason for the tip.] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=121823&view=rss&microfeed=true