Carlos Miguel Gutierrez is an American former CEO and former United States Secretary of Commerce.
25 Facts About Carlos Gutierrez
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Carlos Gutierrez is currently a Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of EmPath.
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Carlos Gutierrez served as the 35th US Secretary of Commerce from 2005 to 2009.
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Carlos Gutierrez was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of a pineapple plantation owner.
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Carlos 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.
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Carlos Gutierrez studied business administration at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education campus in Queretaro but never received a degree, making him the most recent US Cabinet member without a college degree.
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Carlos Gutierrez joined Kellogg's in Mexico in 1975, at the age of 22, as a sales representative and management trainee.
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Carlos Gutierrez was the youngest CEO in the company's nearly 100-year history.
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Carlos Gutierrez's strategy, known as "Volume to Value," was to increase sales by focusing resources on higher-margin products.
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On November 29,2004, Gutierrez was chosen by President George W Bush to become Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Donald Evans.
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On January 24,2005, Carlos Gutierrez was confirmed unanimously by the US Senate; he was sworn in on February 7,2005.
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Secretary Carlos Gutierrez was actively involved in US-Cuba policy alongside Co-Chair Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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Carlos Gutierrez was one of the President's point men working with Congress to pass comprehensive immigration legislation, an issue he sees as one of the greatest domestic social issues of our time.
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Carlos Gutierrez believes a successful immigration solution must focus first on securing our borders, but must address immigrants' contribution to our economy and the importance of American unity.
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Carlos Gutierrez played a key role in the passage of CAFTA-DR, a landmark trade agreement that expanded opportunities for US exports throughout Latin America.
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Carlos Gutierrez was instrumental in promoting the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
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Carlos Gutierrez's office did not respond when asked whether the book had been purchased or mailed unsolicited to his office.
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Carlos Gutierrez was the founder and chairman of Global Political Strategies, an international strategic consulting service and a division of APCO Worldwide, a Washington-based global communications firm.
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In February 2009, Carlos Gutierrez was named a Scholar at the University of Miami's Institute For Cuban And Cuban American Studies.
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Carlos Gutierrez is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Meridian International Center, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Bipartisan Debt Reduction Task Force.
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On February 21,2009, the Wall Street Journal reported that Gutierrez remained unemployed, along with a significant majority of George W Bush's 3,000 political appointees who were seeking full-time employment.
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Carlos Gutierrez is a television news contributor for the business news television channel CNBC.
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In December 2010, Carlos Gutierrez became a vice chairman of Citigroup in the Institutional Clients Group and member of the Senior Strategic Advisory Group.
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Carlos Gutierrez served as a member of the Debt Reduction Task Force at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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In 2013, Gutierrez was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v Perry case.