After twenty years experience with General Motors and Ford in quality and engineering assignments, Gary joined Toyota as General Manager of NUMMI the joint venture between General Motors and Toyota in 1984. Over the next 24 years, Gary worked very closely with many high level Toyota executives in several important functions in Japan and the US to provide the leadership and teamwork necessary to insure continuous improvement in operations, quality, and people development. Through daily hands on work with the teams, Gary's leadership lead him to be promoted to the first American President of Toyota's flagship plant in Georgetown Kentucky, and later promoted as the first American Managing Officer over North American Manufacturing. Gary also partnered with Jeffery Liker to publish a very popular book (The Toyota Way of Lean Leadership), which focuses on the important leadership characteristics and methods he learned which help make Toyota the leading global manufacturing benchmark in quality and efficiency. Following Gary;s retirement in 2007, he joined several board of directors including Dana Holding Corporation. In 2008 Gary became CEO and President of Dana and lead a massive turnaround of the company through the global recession by employing the lessons he learned from Toyota. Retiring for five days in 2011, Gary joined Bloom Energy as COO and assisted Bloom to successfully grow from a small volume technical company to a high volume, high quality, manufacture of the most efficient Fuel Cells producing electricity ever developed. Based on his unique carrier, Gary is recognized as one of the leading US executives with proven first hand experience in Toyota's production systems and lean leadership management techniques. Gary continues as a Sr Advisor for Bloom Energy, and consults with various high level executives and leadership teams on The Toyota Way and Leadership.