Mary Barra is one of the richest Business Executive from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mary Barra's net worth $60 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She was a student of in electrical engineering, on the campus of Kettering University. The co-op student was trainee in General Motors in the early 1980’s.
It is her first woman to be the CEO of a major automaker.
Barra was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. Barra’s parents are of Finnish descent. Barra’s ancestors are from the village of Kankaanpää, in Satakunta province in Finland, from the former municipality of Köyliö. Her grandfather, Viktor Mäkelä, moved to the United States and married Maria Luoma, a Finnish immigrant from Teuva. They lived in Minnesota, in the small mining town of Mountain Iron. They had three children, including a son named Reino, also called Ray. Her father Ray married a second-generation Finnish American named Eva Pyykkönen, and Mary was born in 1961. Ray worked for 39 years at the Pontiac car factory in Detroit, and the family lived in Waterford, Michigan. Barra attended Waterford schools in Michigan. She is a graduate of Waterford Mott High School.
