Carlos Gutierrez
| Carlos Gutierrez | |
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| 35th United States Secretary of Commerce | |
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In office February 7, 2005 – January 20, 2009 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Donald Evans |
| Succeeded by | Gary Locke |
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Carlos Miguel Gutiérrez November 4, 1953 Havana, Cuba |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Edilia Gutierrez |
| Children | Carlos Erika Karina |
| Alma mater | Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Querétaro |
Carlos Miguel Gutierrez (originally Gutiérrez; born November 4, 1953) is an American former CEO and former United States Secretary of Commerce. He is currently a Co-Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a strategic advisory firm.
Gutierrez is a former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Kellogg Company. He served as the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2005 to 2009.
Gutierrez is of Spanish and French descent. He was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of a pineapple plantation owner. As a successful businessman, his father was deemed an enemy of the state by Fidel Castro's regime. Faced with the expropriation of their property following the Cuban Revolution, Gutierrez's family fled for the United States in 1960, when he was six years old, settling in Miami.
When it became apparent they would not be returning to Cuba, Gutierrez's father accepted a position with the H. J. Heinz Company in Mexico and later started his own business. Gutierrez learned his first words of English from the bellhop at the hotel where they initially stayed and, some years later, he and his family acquired United States citizenship.
Gutierrez studied business administration at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education campus in Querétaro but never received a degree, making him the most recent U.S. Cabinet member without a college degree.
Gutierrez joined Kellogg's in Mexico in 1975, at the age of 22, as a sales representative and management trainee. One of his early assignments was driving a delivery-truck route around local stores.
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