George W. Borg

George W. Borg was the son of Charles W. Borg, a Swedish immigrant who started Borg & Beck with Marshall Beck in Moline, Illinois. In 1910 George Borg and a company engineer invented a single-plate clutch, and by the time he succeeded his father as president in 1918, Borg & Beck had produced 200,000 clutches and was the leading U.S. clutch maker.

Borg was named the first president of Borg-Warner Corporation when the 1928 merger closed, then swapped roles with Charles S. Davis in March 1929 to pursue other interests, leaving Davis to run the company day to day. The Borg name stayed in the corporate title, alongside Warner Gear's, through the 1993 spin-off of Borg-Warner Automotive and the later adoption of the BorgWarner name. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).