Steve Gitlin, an AV executive, drove us there.
By contrast, James E. Rohr, PNC Financial's chief executive, drove his own car on Sunday evening to Washington from Pittsburgh, stopping at a Wendy's for a sandwich en route.
On Thursday, Daniel F. Akerson, the G.M. chairman and chief executive, drove a 1960 Corvette down Woodward, accompanied by 50 owner-driven Chevrolet Volts, 20 employee-owned Chevrolet heritage vehicles, the new Camaro ZL1, the Chevrolet Sonic and other classic vehicles.
In 2003 a member of staff at City firm Cantor Fitzgerald won £1m in damages after bullying, including abusive language from the chief executive, drove him out of his job.
Yet I suspect that many investors will look at Mr. Yang's performance over the last three months and see an executive driven more by emotion than by insightful strategy or attention to shareholder value.
On Jan . 3 , 1999with many members of the intended audience stranded in airports by a snowstorm, Mr. Mays and Jacques Nasser, Ford's chief executive, drove the bright yellow Thunderbird concept car onto a stage at the Detroit Auto Show.
WHEN General Motors sought its Washington bailout in 2008, its chief executive drove to Senate hearings in a prototype of the plug-in Chevrolet Volt, a shining symbol of the new G.M. The CTS-V Wagon, one assumes, was hidden in a vault, several stories below the G.M. Design Center.
But chances are whatever Palm executive drives this Porsche Carrera Cabriolet can now write it off as a business expense for mobile advertising.
To celebrate, the 46-year-old executive drove the Escape SUV around the Kansas City plant that will build the first 20,000 models, in front of roomful of clapping autoworkers.
One reason you mention is that Detroit auto workers and executives drive only American-made cars and see everyone else around them doing the same.
IT happens in every recession, and this one is no exception: out-of-work professionals, and even some corporate executives, drive taxis or make cold calls to make ends meet.
