Jim hackett biography

Director since 2016, and with former Board service from 2001 to 2015, James T. Hackett is Chairperson of the Organization and Compensation Committee and member of the Executive and Commercial Strategies and Operational Risk Committees.

James has served as President of Tessellation Services, LLC since 2013, and is former Executive Chairman (from 2018 to 2020) and former Interim Chief Executive Officer (from 2018 to 2019) of Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. (AMR), where he also held the role of Chief Executive Officer of Kingfisher Midstream, LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of AMR) from 2018 to 2020. Prior to this, Hackett was a Partner and Advisor of Riverstone Holdings LLC, an energy-focused private investment firm, from 2013 to 2020 and former Executive Chairman (from 2012 to 2013) and Chief Executive Officer (from 2003 to 2012) of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.

His extensive knowledge of the global oil and gas industry and decades of executive experience paired with his experience serving on other public company boards and as a former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, enable him to provide respected guidance on business strategy.

James is also a director of Enterprise Products Holdings, LLC and SLB (former Schlumberger, Ltd).

American baseball player (1877–1961)

For the Australian cricketer, see Jim Hackett (cricketer).

For other people with the same name, see James Hackett.

Baseball player

James Joseph Hackett (October 1, 1877 – March 28, 1961), nicknamed "Sunny Jim", was a Major League Baseball player. He played two seasons in the majors for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 1902, he was primarily a pitcher, appearing in 4 games with an 0–3 record at that position. In 1903, he was primarily a first baseman, batting .228, while still appearing in seven games on the mound and going 1–3.

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Jim Hackett is president and chief executive officer, Ford Motor Company, effective May 22, 2017. He also is a member of the company's board of directors.

Under Hackett's leadership, together with Bill Ford, Ford is committed to becoming the world's most trusted mobility company, designing smart vehicles for a smart world that help people move more safely, confidently and freely.

Prior to serving in this role, Hackett was chairman of Ford Smart Mobility LLC, a subsidiary of Ford formed to accelerate the company's plans to design, build, grow and invest in emerging mobility services. He was named to the position March 10, 2016.

Before joining Ford Smart Mobility, Hackett was a member of the Ford Motor Company Board of Directors starting in 2013. As a member of the Sustainability and Innovation committee, he was actively involved with the Ford senior leadership team in launching the company's Ford Smart Mobility plan. He also served on the Audit and the Nominating and Governance committees.

Hackett was vice chairman of Steelcase, the global leader in the office furniture industry, from 2014 to 2015. He retired as CEO of Steelcase in February 2014, after having spent 20 years leading the Grand Rapids-based office furniture company.

As a consumer-focused visionary in the office furniture industry, Hackett is credited with guiding Steelcase to becoming a global leader. During his 30 years there, he helped transform the office furniture company from traditional manufacturer to industry innovator. Having spent his career focused on the evolving needs of consumers, Hackett is recognized for predicting that the office landscape would shift away from cubicles to an open space environment, giving employees the flexibility to work where they want.

Hackett is well known for his creative management approach to business. Through an equity investment by Steelcase in IDEO, an international consulting firm, Hackett forged a unique business relationship with it

American businessman (born 1955)

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James Patrick Hackett (born April 22, 1955) is an American businessman. He was the president and chief executive officer of Ford Motor Company from May 2017 to October 2020.

Early life, education, and family

The Hackett family originally moved to Central Ohio via County Carlow and County Galway in Ireland. Hackett is a 1977 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he played center on the football team. He holds a bachelor's degree in general studies. He and his wife, Kathy, have two sons. They reside in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Career

From 1977 to 1981, Hackett held sales and management positions at Procter & Gamble in Detroit, Michigan.

Hackett spent thirty years with the Grand Rapids-based office furniture company Steelcase. He joined Steelcase in 1981, holding a variety of sales and marketing positions. In 1994, Hackett was named CEO at age 39, making him the youngest leader in the history of the company. He held the position for nearly twenty years before retiring in 2014. During his tenure, Steelcase eliminated nearly 12,000 employees as part of a downsizing and restructuring of the business; he also led the company to acquire a majority stake in IDEO in 1996. During this time Hackett became a proponent of design thinking, which focuses on how humans experience a product. Hackett stayed on as vice chairman of the company from 2014 to 2015.

He was interim director of athletics at the University of Michigan, his alma mater, from October 31, 2014 to March 11, 2016. Hackett led the hiring of former San Francisco 49ers’ coach and fellow University of Michigan alumnus Jim Harbaugh as the university's football coach. He donated $300,000 of his annual $600,000 salary as interim athletic director to "Athletes Connected," a program that's de