Baraka_Guru

Actually, you did... when you spoke suggestively about her being spoiled and her father's role in her career path.

So am I, dear. Can the following be bought, or does it require a little gray matter?

A Sample of Belinda Stronach's Accomplishments While at Magna (And please don't suggest this was all because of daddy. That can get one only so far.):

• Maintained her father's basic management style, rewarding entrepreneurial innovations, seeking a greater share of the autoparts market and profits, and extending profit sharing to employees—who received 10 percent of Magna's pretax profits as stipulated in the corporate constitution, which originated in the 1970s; 20 percent of post tax profits, meanwhile, went to investors.
• presided over the five principal worldwide subsidiaries.
• revenue increased under her watch.
• promoted entrepreneurship and new business contracts.
• approved contracts for the European subsidiary Magna Steyr to provide outsourced engineering and production for specific makes of Saab, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz automobiles. (Although, admittedly, she had less success in negotiating contracts with U.S. car makers.)
• a member of the board of directors of Magna from 1988 until 2004.
• became a vice-president of the company in 1995 and executive vice-president in 1999, until her appointment as president and chief executive officer.
• chaired the boards of Decoma International Inc., Tesma International Inc., and Intier Automotive Inc., all in the auto parts sector.
• a founding member of the Canadian Automotive Partnership Council and served on the Ontario Task Force on Productivity, Competitiveness and Economic Progress.
• a director of the Yves Landry Foundation, which furthers technological education and skills training in the manufacturing sector.
• and did I refer to her humanitarian work yet?

Sources:
Belinda Stronach. Answers.com. Business Biographies, Answers Corporation, 2006. http://www.answers.com/topic/belinda-stronach, accessed April 21, 2007.
Belinda Stronach. Answers.com. Wikipedia, Wikipedia, 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/belinda-stronach, accessed April 21, 2007.

Oh, you mean the same Barbara Yaffe who became a vegetarian only after watching the movie Babe and refuses to eat plant matter that can reproduce?

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