What Happened?
Auburn Hills, MI-based Guardian has Promoted Tom Pastore as General Counsel
About the Company
We don't mind telling you that Guardian is one of the world's largest manufacturers of float glass and fabricated glass products. You should also know that we manufacture and supply the automotive industry with a variety of exterior products. We've also become a significant player in the building materials distribution business and are a major manufacturer of fiberglass insulation. And somewhere along the line, we became one of the world's largest producer of mirrors. Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, the privately held Guardian group of companies employs 18,000 people worldwide (that's more than 25 countries on five continents) and we value them above all else. In fact, we are very proud of our management structure. It is specifically designed to avoid bureaucratic nonsense and allows the individual to flourish. It is an environment that thrives on the initiative of its people. And it works. Just ask any of our thousands of happy customers.
About the Person
Tom Pastore was most recently General Counsel of Guardian’s Worldwide Flat Glass division. Pastore joined Guardian’s legal department in 1996 and has held a number of positions including serving as Assistant General Counsel, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary before being appointed General Counsel of Worldwide Flat Glass in 2011. He has been responsible for litigation, employment matters, international trade and many other issues, and has supervised attorneys in Europe, North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. He began practicing law in the Washington, D.C. office of Dykema Gossett in 1988 and moved to the firm’s Detroit office in 1989, where he practiced primarily commercial litigation, with a focus on antitrust and trade regulation. He received his Juris Doctor cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and his bachelor’s degree cum laude from Georgetown University.
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