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Bridgestone Chairman To Deliver Hays Watkins Lecture
Bowling Green, Ky. - Mark A. Emkes, chairman and CEO of Bridgestone Americas Holding Inc., will visit Western Kentucky University’s Gordon Ford College of Business on Nov. 29.
As part of the Hays Watkins Visiting CEO Lecture, Emkes will discuss “The Thrill of International Business” at 11:15 a.m. at Grise Hall, room 235. Emkes began his career with Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. as an International Trainee near Houston, Texas, where he was named as store manager by 1977. From 1979 to 1997, he held various management positions in the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Brazil and Mexico, and became president and managing director for Bridgestone Firestone in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was promoted to executive vice president of Bridgestone Firestone Inc. and elected to a seat on its board of directors in 1999. In 2000 Emkes returned to the United States and was named president of Bridgestone Firestone Latin American Operations. In 2002 he assumed his current title of Chairman and CEO of Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC and in 2004 became Chairman and CEO of Bridgestone Americas Holding Inc. Emkes received his bachelor’s degree in economics from DePauw University and an MBA from the Gavin School of International Management in Phoenix, Ariz. More WKU news is available at www.wku.edu. If you’d like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
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