General Motors expanded its board of directors to 13, appointing former Hewlett-Packard chief Whitman and NBA executive Mark Tatum effective Thursday, March 25, 2021.
Seven of GMs directors are now women, including board chair and Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra, who in 2014 became the first woman to lead a major U.S. automaker.
(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)DETROIT – General Motors said Thursday that it has expanded its board to 13 members and appointed former Hewlett-Packard chief Meg Whitman and NBA executive Mark Tatum as directors.
There has been an acknowledgment in the U.S. and abroad that white men are overrepresented on the boards of major corporations.
Women hold 43.8% of the board seats at companies in France’s 40 biggest publicly traded companies, the U.K. panel said.