[1] Akerson was a managing director of The Carlyle Group and head of global buyout prior to joining General Motors.

Naval Academy Foundation,[2] and in 2014 joined The Carlyle Group as a vice chairman and special advisor to the board of directors.

[5] He left MCI in 1993 to become chairman and chief executive of General Instrument, where he succeeded former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

[10] In July 2009, Akerson was named to the board of directors of General Motors as a representative of the U.S. Treasury, which at the time owned a 61% stake in GM.

[11] On August 12, 2010, it was announced that Akerson would be the successor of Ed Whitacre as CEO of General Motors, starting September 1, 2010, and would also assume the Chairman of the Board position on January 1, 2011.

[18] In an op-ed piece for The Washington Post, Akerson excoriated Donald Trump on a wide range of issues, while praising Hillary Clinton.