Kent Kresa (New York, March 24, 1938) is a US business executive, former chairman and CEO of Northrop Grumman Corporation. Biography modifies wikitesto
After graduating from Boston's Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961, he joined Nortrop Grumman (then still Northrop) in 1975 with the role of Head of the Research and Technology Center of the Company. Having gained experience, thanks to increasingly prestigious positions, in 1986 he became responsible for the Technological Development and Planning sector and in September 1987 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors, adding, in January 1990, of CEO (CEO). Kresa continued her dual assignment until 2003, when she was retired retiring at the age of sixty-five when she was CEO of Ronald Sugar.
Thanks to his work at Northrop Grumnan, Kresa was included in the Forbes magazine among the 25 top managers in the United States in 2001 and 2002.
Kresa was, among other things, Honorary Chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association and a member of the Board of Directors of several companies including General Motors, MannKind Corporation, Avery Dennison Corporation, Fluor Corporation and TWC Group. On March 30, 2009, Kent was appointed interim president of General Motors, replacing Rick Wagoner who resigned after Barack Obama's approval of the US car industry revival. Notemodify wikitesto
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