 EDUARDO MINARDI
Chief Operating Officer
Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM)
Chairman, CEO & President
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO)
After 21 years with the company, Eduardo Minardi assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer for Bridgestone Americas, Inc. and Chairman, CEO and President of Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations March 1, 2010.
Minardi joined Bridgestone Firestone Argentina, S.A.I.C. in 1989 as Product Manager. He was also Sales Manager and Marketing Director in Argentina and ultimately worked his way up to President of Bridgestone Firestone Argentina, S.A.I.C. in 2001.
In Oct. 2002 he was named President of Bridgestone Firestone de México, S.A. de C.V., and he assumed his current responsibilities as Executive Vice President, Bridgestone Americas, Inc., and President, Bridgestone Firestone Latin American Tire Operations, in 2007.
Minardi serves on the boards of Bridgestone Americas, Inc., Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC and Bridgestone Neumáticos de Monterrey, S.A. de C.V.
Minardi graduated from Buenos Aires University with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He has completed both the CEO Management Program at Northwestern University and the Leadership Program through the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.
Before joining Bridgestone, Eduardo Minardi worked in the banking industry as a consultant in organizational and strategic planning and served as professor of economics at the Universidad de Lomas de Zamora (U.N.L.Z) in Argentina. |
