Get In Touch
Nov2024 104x80.jpg
Current Issue
section
logo

GM appoints new head for Global Manufacturing

By Niranjan Mudholkar,

Added 14 June 2016

Alicia Boler-Davis to succeed Jim DeLuca

General Motors Co. (GM) has announced Alicia Boler-Davis will become executive vice president, Global Manufacturing. She succeeds Jim DeLuca, who is retiring after a 37-year career that included key positions in manufacturing, labor relations and quality. The transition will begin immediately.

Boler-Davis, senior vice president, Global Connected Customer Experience since November 2014, led GM's connected customer activities, including OnStar and the call centers. Prior to leading the Global Connected Customer Experience team, Boler-Davis served as the head of Global Quality and Customer Experience since 2012 and was plant manager of the Orion Assembly and Pontiac Stamping plants in Michigan.

Boler-Davis began her career with GM in 1994 and has served in various engineering and manufacturing leadership positions, including vehicle line director and vehicle chief engineer for small cars and plant manager for Lansing's Consolidated Operations and Arlington Assembly. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Northwestern University, a master's degree in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Indiana University.

(Continued on the next page)