Maryann Keller
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December 31, 1943
Maryann Keller | |
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| Born | Maryann Katula December 31, 1943 |
| Died | June 16, 2022 (aged 78) |
| Education | Bachelor of Science |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University |
| Occupations | Automotive industry analyst, author |
| Years active | 40 |
| Known for | Automotive industry contributions |
Maryann Keller was an American automotive industry analyst and author.[1][2] Keller covered the auto industry as a Wall Street analyst from the 1970s until the 1990s.[3] She was last the principal at Maryann Keller & Associates, an automotive consultancy firm she founded in 2001. She died on June 16, 2022, at the age of 78.[4]
Maryann Keller, née Katula, grew up in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Her parents were Henry Katula, a factory hand at National Lead Company, and his wife, Helen, a nurse. Keller married Jay Chai[2] a former vice-chairman and CEO of the Japanese trading company Itochu in 1984. Maryann and Jay have three children.[2]
Education
Keller attended Rutgers University, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry.[2]
Career
Keller became an auto analyst in the 1970s and according to the New York Times was "the first woman to be an auto analyst" in the United States.[3][2] In 1989 she published Rude Awakening; The Rise, Fall and Struggle to Recover at General Motors which predicted the rise of Japanese automakers to the detriment of the Detroit three.[1][5][6] The book won the Eccles Prize for Economic Literature from Columbia University.[7]
After leaving her position as a Wall Street analyst in 1999, Keller managed Priceline.com's automotive division and later started her own consultancy company in 2001.[8]