帕特?沃爾茨 所在公司:ADM(Archer Daniels Midland) 職務:首席執行官 公司500強排名:122 ????出生于西賓夕法尼亞州的帕特?沃爾茨自幼就對商界有著濃厚的興趣。 ????2006年,沃爾茨曾向《財富》雜志(Fortune)透露,“我母親曾在學校當圖書管理員,她覺得暑假是繼續學習的好時節,”炎炎夏日,沃爾茨的暑假都泡在諸如亨氏(Heinz)番茄醬工廠和美國鋼鐵公司(U.S. Steel mill),她覺得生產過程奇妙無比。 ????時間很快來到1974年,沃爾茨從賓州州立大學(Penn State University)畢業并取得了會計學學位。隨后她進入匹茲堡市的安永會計事務所(Ernst & Young)擔任咨詢師。幾年后跳槽到海灣石油公司(Gulf Oil)。 ????1984年,海灣石油和雪佛龍(Chevron)合并之后,沃爾茨結識了很多新朋友并最終決定加入雪佛龍石油,負責公司的“下游”業務。 ????雖然她認為自己已經具備就任首席執行官的條件,但是要等雪佛龍當時的CEO大衛?歐雷利退休還需數年的時間,因此,她在2006年2月毅然辭掉了那份工作。 ????當年4月,史賓沙公司(Spencer Stuart)的湯姆?內福致電沃爾茨,商談就任ADM公司首席執行官事宜。此后的事就人盡皆知了。 ????除了擔任ADM公司(Archer Daniels Midland)的首席執行官,沃爾茨同時還是寶潔公司(Procter & Gamble)以及美中商會(U.S.-China Business Council)董事會成員。對了,此外她還是3個孩子的母親。 |
Patricia A. Woertz Company: Archer Daniels Midland Position: CEO Global 500 Rank: 122 ????Western-Pennsylvanian Patricia Woertz was interested in the corporate world from an early age. ????"Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education," Woertz told Fortune in 2006. Spending the sweaty vacation days in gems like a Heinz ketchup plant or a U.S. Steel mill, she found the production process fascinating. ????Fast forward to 1974. Woertz graduated from Penn State University with a degree in accounting. She became a consultant at Ernst & Young in Pittsburgh and moved to Gulf Oil several years later. ????After Gulf and Chevron merged in 1984, Woertz created many new contacts and eventually made a move to Chevron, taking charge of the company's "downstream" operation. ????Ready for a CEO position, but realizing that then-Chevron CEO David O'Reilly was several years from retiring, she stepped down from her position in February 2006. ????The following April, Tom Neff of Spencer Stuart called Woertz and discussed a CEO opportunity at ADM. The rest is history. ????As CEO, Woertz has led ADM while serving on the boards of directors of Procter & Gamble and the U.S.-China Business Council. Oh, and she's a mother to three children. |