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Tom Gales is a Caterpillar vice president for the Latin America Division with responsibility for marketing and manufacturing operations in Latin America, including Latin America Commercial Division, Caterpillar Mexico S.A., Caterpillar Brasil Ltda. and Caterpillar World Trading Corporation. He became vice president for Latin America Division in 2002 after two years as a company vice president with responsibility for Product Support Division.
Gales joined the company in 1970 in sales training. He has held a series of management positions in marketing in both the United States and Latin America. In 1990, he was named a product manager at the Wheel Loaders & Excavators Division and in 1993 president of Caterpillar Mexico S.A. de C.V. In 1998, he was named managing director of Caterpillar France, S.A. He was elected a vice president in April 2000.
Gales is a member of the Advisory Board for The Center for Latin American Issues, a member of the Brazil-U.S. Business Council and serves on the Board of Directors of the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) in Washington, DC.
He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a degree in Marketing. Gales completed his master's degree in management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a Sloan Fellow. | 