Former Kellogg CEO and Secretary of Commerce Joins iGPS Board

Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Co.), operator of the world’s first pallet rental service providing all-plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, announced Dec. 2 that Carlos Gutierrez, former chairman and CEO of the Kellogg Co. and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, has joined the company’s board of directors.

Gutierrez joined Kellogg in 1975, at the age of 21, as a sales representative and rose through the company’s ranks, becoming its president in 1999 and later its chairman. In 2004, Fortune Magazine dubbed Gutierrez as “The Man Who Fixed Kellogg,” attributing his success to “taking the slick salesmanship, financial discipline and marketing savvy that he learned in his youth and blending it with disarming charisma, steely resolve, and an utter lack of pretension that you wouldn’t expect in one so nattily dressed.” In November 2004, President George W. Bush tapped Gutierrez to be his Secretary of Commerce, a post he held for five years.