President Barack Obama has nominated former Proctor & Gamble CEO Robert McDonald to take over the troubled Veterans Affairs (VA) Department.
While a former Army captain and graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, McDonald has spent most of his career in the private sector.
In picking a businessman rather than a decorated general or health care leader, Obama is signaling that managerial experience is what he values most in VA leadership.
The former CEO will need to bring his three decades of experience managing one of the world’s most recognizable companies to an agency reeling from revelations of chronic, system-wide failure and veterans dying while on waiting lists for treatment.
McDonald’s nomination comes a month after the resignation of Eric Shinseki as VA secretary, following revelations of long wait times for treatment at VA facilities and falsification of records to cover them up.
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