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FOR RELEASE:
2006-10-17
Joe Spielman to Retire After
43 Years of Distinguished Service
DETROIT –
Joe Spielman, GM vice president of North America assembly and stamping
operations, will retire Feb. 1, 2007, after 43 years of distinguished
service to the world’s largest automaker.
“Joe has had an outstanding career
with GM,” Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said in announcing Spielman’s
retirement today. “His leadership has been a significant factor in GM’s
ongoing improvements in safety, quality, productivity and strong
relationships with our unions, and his enthusiasm and passion were
infectious to all who came in contact with him.”
Spielman’s responsibilities will be
assumed by Tim Lee, GM North America vice president of manufacturing.
Spielman has operational
responsibility for GM’s assembly and metal stamping plants in North
America. Before he was appointed to that post in January 2005, he had
been GM vice president and general manager of vehicle manufacturing with
responsibility for North American assembly plants since 2003.
Spielman joined GM in 1963 at the
former Fisher Body plant in Flint, Mich., as a General Motors Institute
intern. After holding several supervisory and management positions at
the plant, he was named plant manager in 1980. The following year, he
became manager of the former Fisher Body Metal Fabricating plant in
Marion, Ind.
Spielman subsequently held
management positions with the former Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM of Canada
Group. In 1991 he was named vice president and general manager of the
former Rear Drive Automotive Division and, in 1992, of the former
Midsize Car Division. He was appointed to head the Metal Fabricating
Division and Manufacturing Center in October 1994.
Born in New York City, Spielman was
raised in Trimont, Minn. He holds a bachelor of science degree in
mechanical engineering from GMI, and he completed the Advanced
Management Program at Harvard University.
Spielman is a member of the
National Society of Professional Engineers and the Society of Automotive
Engineers. He also is president of The Hundred Club of Flint Inc., and
is an executive for Kettering University, formerly GMI. Spielman was
elected to the Engineering Society of Detroit College of Fellows and was
inducted into the National Corvette Museum Hall of Fame in 2001.
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