Goodyear Names New Treasurer
7 December 1998
Goodyear Names New Treasurer
AKRON, Ohio, Dec. 7 -- Stephanie W. Bergeron, currently
assistant treasurer, corporate finance with DaimlerChrysler, will be joining
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. as vice president and treasurer, Goodyear
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert W. Tieken
announced today.
Bergeron has been in her present position since November 1994 with
responsibility for Chrysler's treasury planning including capital markets
transactions, corporate cash and foreign exchange, securities trading and
banking operations, and corporate bank relations. She also served on the
Chrysler Fund Board of Trustees.
"Stephanie Bergeron brings a wealth of treasury and industry experience to
this position, and we look forward to her joining us on Dec. 29," Tieken said.
A native of Highland Park, Mich., Bergeron earned an undergraduate degree
in business administration from the University of Michigan and a master's
degree in business administration from the University of Detroit.
In addition to Chrysler, Bergeron was with Arthur Anderson & Co. for two
years and joined General Motors in 1977, where she held various financial
positions.
Bergeron joined Chrysler in July 1988 as assistant general auditor and was
appointed general auditor that September. In June 1990, she was named
manufacturing group controller and three years later, finance director,
corporate financial activities.
In addition to serving on the board of trustees of Walsh College in Troy,
Mich., she is on the board for the Detroit Chapter of the Financial Executives
Institute. Bergeron also is on the Behavioral Services Board of Trustees of
the Henry Ford Health System.
Bergeron succeeds Richard W. Hauman, who will join Goodyear's Tredcor
operation in Capetown, South Africa, on Jan. 1 and will become managing
director of the company's Contred subsidiary on July 1, 1999.
Bergeron is married with two children, and the family presently resides in
West Bloomfield, Mich.