After his work on
the Obama auto task force, he founded MAEVA Group, a corporate restructuring firm, in 2011.
Not exact matches
He touted Wilson's resume and crossover appeal, noting the candidate's stint on the
Obama administration's
auto task force — the only Republican member of the leadership team.
Naive, perhaps, but he's a really smart guy and he did volunteer for
Obama's
auto task force when most right wingers wanted to see it fail on general principle.
Wilson was chosen by Democratic President Barack
Obama to serve on his
task force to save the American
auto industry.
But study co-author Harry Wilson — a nationally renowned pension expert who served on President
Obama's
auto restructuring
task force — said the IBO analysis under - reported the pension and health liabilities by $ 3,500 to $ 4,000 per student, or 24 to 27 percent.
Wilson has experience in turning around troubled companies and served on the
task force created by Democratic President Barack
Obama to save the
auto industry following the economic downturn.
Wilson — a Harvard MBA who helped restructure GM as a member of President
Obama's
auto task force — says that, in times like these, «we need new leaders who are willing to test the limits in defense of taxpayers.»
He left the firm to serve on President
Obama's
auto industry
task force in February 2009, but quit after just four months on the job.
«Upstate New York is worse off now than it was in 2010, when Cuomo was elected, and the metropolitan area, while it has had a decent rebound, has performed under its potential,» said Wilson, who served on
Obama's
auto industry
task force in 2009.
Other Republicans thinking about running are State Senator John DeFrancisco, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro and Manhattan businessman Harry Wilson, who served on former President Barack
Obama's
auto task force.
As he campaigns, Wilson, who served on President Barack
Obama's
auto industry
task force, hammers away at the state's precarious fiscal situation and says the government must curtail spending.
Separately, the head of President
Obama's
auto task force, Ron Bloom, and GM Chairman Ed Whitacre said GM was on track for an IPO as early as 2010.
President Barack
Obama's
auto task force last week said in an assessment of General Motors» viability that it was a full generation behind Toyota in «green powertrain development» and that «while the Volt holds promise, it is currently projected to be much more expensive than its gasoline - fueled peers and will likely need substantial reductions in manufacturing cost in order to become commercially viable.»
In response to an
Obama Administration
auto task force report, Plug In America on Tuesday proposed a plan to make GM's Chevy Volt and other plug - in cars more affordable, noting that most advanced new technologies are initially more costly.