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Eduardo A. Fortunato who has held a number of key sales marketing and general management leadership positions during his career was named president of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's Latin American tire business in November 2003.
Previously Fortunato had been serving as president and managing director of Goodyear Brazil since 2000.
Fortunato who joined Goodyear in 1975 in the Engineered Products sales group in Argentina was named manager sales Engineered Products in 1988. He moved to the company's tire business in Argentina as a marketing manager in 1989. He was named dealer development manager in Argentina in 1992. One year later Fortunato moved to Goodyear Mexico in the same position. He was named sales director Mexico in 1994.
In 1998 Fortunato moved to Goodyear's corporate headquarters in Akron Ohio as director sales and marketing for the company's Latin America region a position he held until being named to his most recent position in Brazil.
Born June 8 1953 in Buenos Aires Argentina Fortunato holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master of Science degree in marketing from the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires. | 