Regular readers know that TTAC leans a little towards the “Inside Baseball” side of the auto industry. In this case, if we leaned any further, we’d fall down. But hey, many of us have come a long way together, shaking our heads in wonder as The General’s aide de camps stayed-up all night listening to Mohammed’s radio. Or something like that. Anyway, here’s a GM-related picture from Clubsnap.com’s Singapore snappers, taken during last year’s BBK International Motor Show. Make the jump for your New GM New Scorecard.
North America
Reporting to Bob Lutz, vice chairman of marketing and communications
• Brent Dewar, vice president, global Chevrolet brand
• Susan Docherty, general manager, Buick-GMC brands
• Bryan Nesbitt, general manager, Cadillac brand
• Jay Spenchian, executive director, marketing strategy support group
Reporting to Mark LaNeve, vice president of U.S. sales
• Jim Bunnell, general manager, sales operations
• Steve Hill, general manager, retail sales support
• Kurt McNeil, general sales manager, Chevrolet brand
• Ed Peper, general sales manager, Cadillac brand
• Brian Sweeney, general sales manager, Buick-GMC brand
Retirements
• Gary Cowger, group vice president, global manufacturing and labor relations. Effective Dec. 31.
• Ralph Szygenda, group vice president and chief information officer. Effective Oct. 1.
• Troy Clarke, group vice president and president, GM North America. Effective Oct. 1.
• Maureen Kemptson Darkes, group vice president, GM Latin America, Africa and Middle East. Effective Dec. 31.
International operations
The following executives will be GM International vice presidents, based in Shanghai
• Jim Bovenzi, global purchasing and supply chain
• Jim DeLuca, quality
• Don Johnson, vehicle sales, service and marketing
• Diane Jurgens, information systems and services
• Nancy Ownes, human resources
• Joe Peter, CFO
• Therese Ryan, general counsel (followed by Ken Wong in June 2010)
• Dan Sovran, alliances and business development
• John Stadwick, aftersales
• Eric Stevens, manufacturing
• Johan Willems, communications
• Steve Clarke, vehicle engineering
• Lowell Paddock, program management and planning
• Ken Parkinson, design
Also in Asia:
• At GM Daewoo, Mike Arcamone becomes president and CEO, replacing Michael Grimaldi, who is retiring, effective Oct. 1. Arcamone currently is vice president of GM Powertrain Europe.
• At Holden, Alan Batey replaces Mark Reuss as managing director of GM Holden, effective Sept. 1. Reuss will return to the U.S. to assume a senior leadership role in global product development
• Ray Bierzynski, vice president of engineering for GM Asia Pacific and executive director of China engineering, will return to the U.S. to assume a senior role in global product development.
Board of directors
5 new directors were appointed
• Carol Stephenson, dean of Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario
• Daniel Akerson, managing director, The Carlyle Group private equity group
• David Bonderman, co-founding partner, TPG private equity firm
• Robert Krebs, retired CEO, Burlington Northern Santa Fe
• Patricia Russo, former CEO, Alcatel-Lucent
One thing I haven’t heard explained is Bob Lutz’s title of Vice Chairman. I’m assuming it means Vice Chair of the BOD? If so, doesn’t he outrank CEO Fritz Henderson? But I know Fritz said that Bob works for him.
Mark Reuss is well worth keeping, and if he’s anywhere near Lutz it should be interesting.
Those two dislike each other intensely.
Some of that could be healthy.
Patricia Russo, former CEO, Alcatel-Lucent
Is this a joke? Didn’t she preside over more than 60% slide in Lucent’s market cap (before the GFC, BTW).
(sigh) More of the same, only now it’s government sanctioned.
On the bright side, that’s a cute dress and an adorable girl.
@PeteMoran – I thought the same thing – she was a spectacular failure. Perfect for GM, I suppose. As CEO she oversaw a 70% stock slide at LU before the merger, 50+% after. But she’s the right gender for a BOD picked for political correctness.
On the bright side, that’s a cute dress and an adorable girl.
Sporting white “do me” pumps.
Still won’t sell me on the car tho.
“Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss…”
Now that is the largest collection of incompetent jackasses I’ve seen this week. Wait, I forgot about the House and Senate…
I am hoping that this means that Lutz is running the show and that On the Fritz is the figurehead leader. Because we know the great things that happened at Chrysler when Lutz was put in charge.
Nice of them to doll up an assembly line worker to show off the conveyance.
Susan Docherty. Mark LaNeve.
We’ll still have the Old GM to kick around for some time to come!
Stay tuned for “Chapter 11 – Part Deux” – coming soon to a dealer near you….