Awards & Recognition
★Black Engineer of the Year Award 2021 - top industry honor
★BEYA Career Achievement Award 2014
★Gerald Johnson Legacy Award named after him for automotive excellence
★Recognition for COVID-19 manufacturing response leadership
Notable Facts
→44-year career at General Motors, rose from co-op student to Executive Vice President
→Youngest superintendent in GM Fisher Body Stamping Plant history at age 24
→First African American plant manager at GM's Mansfield Plant in 2002
→Led GM's COVID-19 manufacturing response converting plants to ventilator production
→Responsible for 103,000+ employees across 129 manufacturing facilities in 16 countries
→Serves on Caterpillar Inc. board of directors since 2021
→Recently elected to Eaton Corporation and Group14 Technologies boards
→Co-founded The Gathering Church in Detroit with wife in 2018
→Holds degrees from Kettering University and MIT