Rick Wagoner gets seat on Washington Post board

Washington Post has announced today that former GM CEO Rick Wagoner has been named to the company”s board. Wagoner was pushed out of GM in March of “09 by the Obama administration in the run up to GM”s bankruptcy filing.

Wagoner had been CEO since 2000, and previously run the company”s operations in Brazil Washington Post’s other directors include investor Warren Buffett, IAC/InterActiveCorp. CEO Barry Diller, former Xerox Corp. CEO Anne Mulcahy and Melinda Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and wife of Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates.

-By: Stephen Calogera

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