General Motors (GM) chairman Tim Solso disclosed that Erroll Davis Jr. would not be standing for re-election to the GM board of directors at the company’s annual meeting of stockholders in 2015. Davis joined the board in 2009.
Davis served as superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools from July 2011 until his retirement in June 2014. From 2006 until his retirement in June 2011, he served as Chancellor of the University System of Georgia, the governing and management authority of public higher education in Georgia. From 2000 to 2006, Davis served as chairman of Alliant Energy Corporation, and he held the offices of president and chief executive officer from 1998 to 2005.
Davis is currently a director of Union Pacific Corporation. He was a previous member of several company boards including Amoco, British Petroleum, General Motors Corp., PPG Industries and Wisconsin Power & Light.
Davis has received several honors and awards. Among them: inclusion in the “75 Most Powerful Blacks in Corporate America” by Black Enterprise Magazine in 2005; one of the “50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America” by Fortune Magazine in 2002; the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business in 1993; and “Black Engineer of the Year” in 1988, awarded by U.S. Black Engineer magazine.
With the addition of Linda Gooden, the retirement of Davis maintains the GM board at 12 members.
Published in the May 2015 Edition of American Recycler News