Back in June, General Motors announced that Chief Financial Officer, Chuck Stevens, would retire after four decades of service to the automaker. Succeeding Stevens will be Dhivya Suryadevara. Here’s what we know about GM’s incoming CFO.
Dhivya Suryadevara, 39, has been with General Motors since 2005. She assumed her most recent position of vice president of Corporate Finance in July 2017, where she headed corporate financial planning, investor relations, and special projects. Suryadevara has been integral to GM’s divestiture of Opel, its acquisition of Cruise Automation, investment in Lyft, as well as the recent investment by SoftBank in GM Cruise.
Prior to this, she served as the Finance and Treasurer vice president from 2015 to 2017, where she helped upgrade GM’s credit rating from all three major credit rating agencies. She also pushed for the completion of a $2 billion notes issuance to fund discretionary pension contributions, and upsized the renewed $14.5 billion GM revolving credit line.
Chuck Stevens
From 2013 to 2017, Suryadevara served as CEO and Chief Investment Officer of GM Asset Management, a General Motors subsidiary that is responsible for the management of business and investment activities of its parent’s pension operations.Â
When Suryadevara joined General Motors in 2005, she held a bachelor’s and master’s degree in commerce from the University of Madras in Chennai, India and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Suryadevara is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Chartered Accountant. She will report to GM chairman and CEO, Mary Barra, when she assumes her role as CFO on September 1, 2018.Â
“Dhivya’s experience and leadership in several key roles throughout our financial operations positions her well to build on the strong business results we’ve delivered over the last several years,” said Barra.
Meanwhile, Stevens will stay on as an advisor with the company throughout the next few months until his official retirement on March 1, 2019.
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And she looks so hot with those bedroom eyes… If I had to deal with her, I would melt in my chair.
It’s interesting how people are comfortable with saying this but not saying that Chuck Stevens looks like a reformed rapist.
So, what if he does…?
In the corporate world the above remarks would be action for discipline. All very close to sexual harrasment.
But I’m not in the GM corporate world, so I’m free to give compliments as I please. BTW, my remark wasn’t disrespectful in any way.
Yet the corporate world in general (has no problem with lying, cheating and stealing…) Think back at the cigarette industry that was hiring doctors to promote their products. I can pick out 100s of examples of current companies. VW smog cheat scandal, rampant insider trading…
One smart lady. Great asset.
Just what we need in one of the top three vehicle manufacturing companies in NA , more women in top management positions . Why not head designers for both inside and out , colors and advertising . My goodness and Barra looks after the dress code of employees …..more !
I agree Jim, A 100 years of male dominance in the industry and nearly every auto company went bankrupt. When a husband messed up the check book (when we had to kept a checkbook balance) it took the wife to straighten it out.
More good news!
Joy Falotico who spent 29 years at Ford Credit, quietly climbing the ranks to chairman and CEO of Lincoln.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/lincoln-chief-joy-falotico-interview-aviator/