埃德·惠塔克裡
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埃德·惠塔克裡(Edward Whitacre)——美國通用汽車公司董事長兼臨時CEO
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埃德·惠塔克裡(Edward Whitacre)1941年11月4日出生。惠塔克裡在AT&T工作了44年，在電信行業里是一個不折不扣的大腕。惠塔克裡最大的成就莫過於2006年以860億美元收購BellSouth Corp 。
惠塔克裡身邊的人評價他：“如果他信賴你，他會提供一切的支持。但是如果哪天你把他惹毛了，他會對你毫不留情。”
韓德勝剛上任的時候，惠塔克裡對身邊的人表示韓德勝是那時候最合適不過的人選。而如今，他卻以“韓德勝推進重組計劃過程中與董事會產生意見分歧”為由解雇了韓德勝。
在通用員工的而言里，惠塔克裡是一個和善的領導。他都會主動地跟各級管理人員及員工打招呼。他還很善於傾聽員工工作中的煩惱。
Edward E. "Ed" Whitacre, Jr. (born November 4, 1941) is a former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc. He served as national president of the Boy Scouts of America from 1998-2000.
Whitacre was born in Ennis, Texas. He began his career with Southwestern Bell in 1963 as a facility engineer. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and graduated from Texas Tech University with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering.
In October 1988, Whitacre was made president and chief operating officer of Regional Bell Operating Company, Southwestern Bell Corporation. Two years later, Whitacre became chairman of the board and chief executive officer. In 1995, Southwestern Bell Corporation changed its name to SBC Communications. Whitacre led SBC through a series of mergers and acquisitions in building the largest provider of both local long distance telephone services and wireless service (through its Cingular division) in the United States. These acquisitions included Pacific Telesis (1997), SNET (1998), Comcast Cellular (1999), Ameritech (1999) and AT&T (2005), from which the post-merger company took its name, as well as the 2006 acquisition of Bell South.
On June 23, 2006, he and the CEO of BellSouth were brought in under the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee following the AT&T-BellSouth merger. Most questions to Whitacre were regarding possible customer information leaks to the NSA.citation needed Whitacre's compensation for 2006 totaled $61 million, $17 million in 2005, and about $14 million in 2004.
On April 27, 2007, at the AT&T annual stockholders meeting, Whitacre announced his intent to retire as Chairman of the Board and chief executive officer at AT&T Inc., effective June 3. The Board of Directors elected Randall Stephenson to succeed Whitacre as the new CEO and Chairman of the Board. On June 4th, 2007 Ed Whitacre retired with Randall Stephenson taking the helm the following morning (June 5th, 2007). Upon retirement, Whitacre was eligible for a $158 million payout from AT&T. Following retirement, under his employment contract Whitacre is entitled to receive some continuing benefits, including automobile use, access to AT&T's corporate aircraft for up to ten hours per month, use of AT&T office facilities and support staff , home security, club memberships, and payment of applicable taxes resulting from these benefits, except for use of the aircraft. In addition, Whitacre has a three year consulting contract with AT&T for which he will be paid about $1 million annually.
BusinessWeek reported that, though the CEO of one of the largest and most influential names in telecommunications and its surrounding technology, Whitacre did not use email or have a computer in his office.It has also been reported that Whitacre offered Stephenson three words of advice via text message when the executive change was announced: "Give 'em hell".
On June 9, 2009, General Motors named Whitacre as chairman. He took the position when the automaker emerged from bankruptcy proceedings on July 10, 2009.
