Effective November 1, Mike Devereux, Director of GM-Holden, will be taking on the roll of GM CIO Vice President – Sales, Marketing and Aftersales. He will report to General Motors Executive Vice President of Consolidated International Operations (CIO) Stefan Jacoby.
Devereux will retain his responsibilities of managing Holden until the end of the year, as a replacement for his position is found.
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What is “Consolidated International Operations (CIO)”? I know of “GM International Operations”, but “consolidated” ones? Does that mean GM global, worldwide? Or what?
A replacement for Mike Devereux as Director of GM-Holden?
How about Duncan Aldred, until next Thursday Acting GME Vice President Sales and Aftersales and besides that Chairman and Managing Director of Vauxhall.
BTW, together with announcing Aldreds permanent replacement as GME Vice President Sales and Aftersales and new Opel Board Member for Sales by Peter Christian Küspert (52), effective November 1, 2013, Opel also announced that Aldred would become a member of the Opel/Vauxhall Leadership Board, the company’s extended leadership team.
These are all of the reactions by Australians:
1. “Now get someone who is Australian!”
2. “Well, there goes local manufacturing”
3. “His replacement will be the one GM give the task of killing off local manufacturing to”
4. All of the above
As a fan of Holden, you should remember Peter Hanenberger, who was Holden general manager (CEO) from 1999 till the end of 2003. Peter Hanenberger is a German native who spent all his professional career at GM, starting at the age of 16 as apprentice in the Opel engineering center in Rüsselsheim, in the year of 1976.
According to everything I could find on the Web (including the two articles on Hanenberger in the English and German language Wikipedias), Holden had some of its most successful years in the time when Hanenberger was boss there, and that he was highly respected by his colleagues and the Holden workers. Thy build a special LHD version of a Holden Monare for him as a farewell present (I don’t know if he tried and got a individual certification of that car for the public roads after retiring to his native Wiesbaden).
Does that change at least some of “all of the reactions by Australians”?
Hannenberger left Holden in rough shape having stretched the engineering resources to the limit. Quality was horrible and left a lasting scar for years. He eventually sold his “gift” Monaro for a handsome profit (since he got it for free).
I wasn’t making those reactions up, they are all of the reactions from social media. The only others were by Ford fans so you can understand why I didn’t mention them.
What Bluto Blutarsky writes, is the same bad reputation for which Hanenberger was literally chased from Opel in 1999. But based on the press reports and other stuff which I could read, I thought that he had acted completely differently in Australia, maybe because he was not summoned by the Detroit GM management to cut costs at all costs.