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2000 WAAI Professional Achievement Award Recipient
Maryann Keller
Automotive Analyst


In 1972, Maryann Keller joined the brokerage firm of Kidder Peabody & Company as an automotive industry analyst. She later worked for Paine Webber and Furman Selz.
During this twenty-seven year period, she achieved "top auto industry analyst" on Wall Street more than ten times.

Maryann has gained much prominence for her opinion about industry trends. She is a frequent speaker before industry, dealer and governmental organizations. Her monthly column appeared in Automotive Industries magazine for more than ten years. Maryann has participated in numerous academic forums and has testified before various branches of congress on industry issues. She has written two books on the auto industry. Columbia University awarded Maryann the Eccles Prize for excellence in economics writing for "Rude Awakening: The Decline, Fall and Struggle to Recover at General Motors" published by William Morrow in 1989; and Doubleday published "Collision: GM, Toyota and Volkswagen and the Race to Own the 21st Century" in 1993.

 
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AWARD RECIPIENTS
2006: Pamela E. Rodgers - Dealer Owner, Rodgers Chevrolet
2004: Dr. Rose Ryntz - Director for Advanced Materials Engineering at Visteon Corporation
2003: Debra Kelly-Ennis President and Chief Operating Officer, Saab Cars U.S.A 
2002: Lynn Myers, General Manager, Pontiac-GMC, General Motors Corporation
2001: Irma Elder, Chairman/CEO, Elder Automotive Group
2000: Maryann Keller, Automotive Analyst
1999: Jane Warner, Managing Director, EDS Global Automotive Sector
1998: Bobbi Gaunt, Retired President, Ford Motor Company of Canada
1997: Maureen Kempston-Darkes, President, General Motors of Canada
 
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