{"id":134138,"date":"2019-02-28T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=134138"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:45:17","slug":"general-motors-sees-two-top-executives-depart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2019\/02\/general-motors-sees-two-top-executives-depart\/","title":{"rendered":"General Motors Sees Two Top Executives Depart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GM North America Pres. Alan Batey spent 40 years at the company. He's retiring effective April 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

General Motors is in the midst of restructuring its operations, but it\u2019s unlikely losing two of its top officials was part of the plan, nevertheless, Alan Batey and Alicia Boler Davis are both set to leave the company on April 1.<\/p>\n

Batey is the company\u2019s North American president, while Boler Davis is head of global manufacturing operations. Batey\u2019s departure isn\u2019t entirely a surprise as he is retiring, but Boler Davis, a long-time confidant of GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra, leaving the company for \u201cother opportunities\u201d is a bit of a shocker.<\/p>\n

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Barry Engle, currently president of GM International, will move into the new position of executive vice president and president of the Americas to succeed Batey. In the meantime, Boler Davis will be succeeded by Gerald Johnson, who becomes vice president of North American manufacturing and labor relations.<\/p>\n

Julian Blissett, currently GM-SAIC executive vice president in China, is named senior vice president, International Operations. Blissett will have responsibility for GM\u2019s operations outside of the Americas and China. Blissett will also report to Barra.<\/p>\n

(UAW sues General Motors over plant closures. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Both Johnson and Engle will report directly to Barra, according to the automaker. The transition for both will begin immediately.<\/p>\n

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Alicia Boler Davis is leaving the company after 25 years for other opportunities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to thank Alicia for her 25 years of dedicated service to GM and for her leadership in driving both business results and culture change,\u201d said Barra in a statement.\u00a0\u201cAlicia and I have worked together for many years and I appreciate her many contributions.\u00a0I wish her and her family all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boler Davis must be taking a job outside of the industry since she is remaining to help with Johnson\u2019s move into the new job. She started at GM in 1994 as a manufacturing engineer at the midsize\/luxury car division in Warren, Michigan.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for more about\u00a0GM expecting bigger profits, more transformation in 2019.<\/em><\/strong>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

During the next 25 years at the automaker, she took jobs of increasing responsibilities until taking as the leader of GM\u2019s global manufacturing operations, manufacturing engineering and labor relations organizations in 2016. She was one of many women who were elevated into senior positions during Barra\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n

Others include Julia Steyn, head of urban mobility and Maven; Kimberly Brycz as senior vice president, Global Human Resources; Dhivya Suryadevara as Chief Financial Officer; and Pamela Fletcher, vice president, Global Electric Vehicle Programs.<\/p>\n

The company has also seen other high-level executives separate from the company as well, including the aforementioned Steyn; Tim Mahoney, Global Chevrolet chief marketing officer,\u00a0who retires\u00a0March 1; and President Dan Ammann, who\u00a0as of Jan. 1,<\/strong>\u00a0became CEO of the automaker’s Cruise autonomous vehicle subsidiary.<\/p>\n

(To see more about Mary Barra\u2019s radical reshaping of General\u00a0Motors,\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Additionally, GM CFO Chuck Stevens retired in March, and Johan de Nysschen, who was Cadillac president when he was shown the door last spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

General Motors is in the midst of restructuring its operations, but it\u2019s unlikely losing two of its top officials was part of the plan, nevertheless, Alan Batey and Alicia Boler Davis are both set to leave the company on April 1. Get the details on the departures at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":102655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5],"tags":[],"make":[58],"post-state":[],"category_old":[286,150,151,123,287,289,299,243,132,284,125,290,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134138"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=134138"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=134138"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=134138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}