Bridgestone Americas CEO Mark Emkes '75 to Address Distinguished Speakers Series in His Hometown

February 28, 2005

February 28, 2005, Greencastle, Ind. - Mark Emkes -- chairman and CEO of Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc., chairman and CEO of Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC, and 1975 graduate of DePauw University -- will be the featured speaker at Thursday's Leadership Jackson County Distinguished Speaker Series in Seymour, Indiana. Emkes, who grew up in Seymour, "took over as CEO of the company, which is worth more than $8 billion and has more than 50,000 employees, in April 2004," notes a story in the Seymour Daily Tribune.

“I’ll be talking about my journey and how I’ve applied small-town values to the corporate world,” Emkes tells the newspaper. “How I was able to move from the bottom of the organization to chairman and CEO of Bridgestone Americas by applying many of the values and principles I learned growing up in Seymour.”

Ann Windley, director of Leadership Jackson County, says, “We expect our best crowd ever to welcome a favorite son home again.”

Read the newspaper story, which mentions Mark Emkes' DePauw degree, by clicking here. Learn more about Emkes here.

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