Upon the departure of Dan Ammann for Cruise Automation, Mark Reuss has been promoted to President of General Motors. However, he has not abandoned his multiple duties as head of Global Product Group, as well as President of Cadillac. Along with his new role, Reuss will also absorb responsibility for all vehicle quality. It was previously announced that GM CEO Mary Barra took on the oversight of GM Financial, which was another responsibility of Ammann’s.
Mark Reuss has a background in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University, and began his GM career as a student intern in 1983. He has held numerous engineering and management positions, including chief engineer of GM’s large luxury vehicles and manufacturing body shop tooling launches. In 2001, Reuss created and led the GM Performance Division while serving as executive director of Architecture Engineering. In this role, he was responsible for GM’s racing vehicles including the Cadillac V-Series products and SS-branded Chevrolet vehicles. In 2005, he was appointed executive director of GM’s North America Vehicle Systems and Architecture, and a year later was named executive director of Global Vehicle Integration, Safety and Virtual Development.
Mark Reuss has been VP of global product development since late 2013. In June 2018, Mark Reuss was named Executive Vice President and President, Global Product Group and Cadillac. Additionally, he serves on the board of GM China’s joint venture, and is a member of the GM Senior Leadership Team.
In 2009, Mark Reuss was President of General Motors North America, responsible for GM’s performance, manufacturing, portfolio and dealer network. Alan Batey currently is in this role.
Reuss also served briefly as GM’s vice president of global engineering after spending two years overseas as vice president and managing director of Australia and New Zealand. During this time, he was a member of the GM Asia Pacific Strategy Board.
Mark Reuss is a certified industry pool test driver on the North Course of the Nürburgring Motorsport Racetrack in Germany, and is licensed for FIA C and IMSA Road Racing. His first car was a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro, which he bought and restored himself. In 2018, he was honored as the Enthusiast of the Year at the Concours d’Elegance of America.
Reuss is a member of the Duke Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors and is GM’s Key Executive at Duke University. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of The Henry Ford, the Skillman Foundation, Cranbrook Schools, Horizons Upward Bound, Detroit Workforce Development Board, the Detroit Education Coalition and the CEO Leadership Group on Regional Economic Development.
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God no…. Reuss+Barra=bean counters.
Reuss was running Holden in 2008-9 when he decided to kill the rear-drive Zeta Commodore (Chevy SS) and replace it with a bum-dragging soap-bar sourced from a Euro factory that he knew wasn’t locked-into GM infrastructure and was subsequently sold to Peugeot days after the ZB was launched. This set of failures should have endured Reuss was fired or backwatered. But nope, his Daddy was important. Reuss ain’t the right guy unless he openly admits his mistakes and how he’ll fix ‘em. Like Lutz used to do. Lutz was authentic, real, hero. Reuss is a “legacy”, with all the problems they bring.
Honestly, to be a Bob Lutz, he would have had to work at a few auto companies, ruffle a few feathers and learn to work the system in a large company.
I hate to generalize, but most people I’ve met working a lifetime at a single large company revert to caring most about their paycheck. We can always hope that’s not the case, but judging from the comments, confidence is awfully low.
lol what? Reuss is a car guy – Ammann is a bean counter. He was brought in during the bailout. How misinformed are you?
lol what? Reuss is a car guy – Ammann was the bean counter. He was brought in during the bailout. How misinformed are you?
GM needs new people. Not the same old bean counter faces
Barra is going to cancel the Corvette, Camaro, Bolt, and the Buick brand.
No reason. She just decided to do it this morning over coffee.
I’ve always liked Reuss, he’ll have no excuse to make sure the vehicles have the quality material they need. I hope he has the balls to stand up to the board when he needs too.
I was hoping Mary Barry would show that same quality when she said no more crummy cars. Unfortunately she literally has no balls!
So we still won’t be getting top notch interiors anytime soon in future GM products. Nit Good.
Ruess had me fooled years ago. I thought he was going to bring in new change to GM but I realized how he was was as soon as the whole Cadillac/Johan thing went down. He is just another lifelong Beancounting lifer within the GM Family. It truly is too bad. Hope he proves us wrong.
Mark will really help GM. Cadillac was ruined by deniescen and he wanted to bring it back. Chevy makes great vehicles overseas, and would grow if the ceo wouldn’t abandon a market just because it is a little slow after only a couple years growth. Reuss has his hands in the awesome performance of the camera, so i am expecting great performance from future vehicles, and as an engineer, product quality will be on his mind, not bean counting like bara or a business background. He’ll do good.
Ruined by Johan?
He wanted to bring Cadillac to true tier One Luxury and Reuss/Barra wouldn’t allow him the authority.
Cadillac is now going to give us a Chevy badged 75K CUV. Are you serious?
Unfortunately Cadillac can’t afford to build their own suv/cuv. Cadillac has been breast fed by Chevrolet for so long they can’t eat solid food. I’m all for giving Cadillac it’s own engines and platforms as long as Chevy is given the same autonomy. Who’s building the blackwing? It’s certainly not Grand River! Henry Leland would roll over in his grave.
I always thought Mark Reuss did a great job revitalizing GM products under Bob Lutz, particularly when he ran GM Performance Division, which is responsible for the V-series I still enjoy.
On the other hand, I fear he doesn’t have the “squeaky wheel” nature of Bob Lutz, who pushed management to better products at the expense of his own demise at Chrysler — but raised his value as an auto executive substantially.
You have to figure President is most likely a short-lived role if product keeps moving sideways. Cadillac is desperately in need of a refresh, Chevy products are aging and even the “great-selling” pickup trucks are now finishing a distant 3rd against Ford and Chrysler. What worries me is Reuss could not maintain the product trajectory GM had under Lutz.
He’ll really need to step up in the new role and challenge the beancounter regression that has seeped back in, or risk being a scapegoat.
As someone who spent 12 years at Chrysler as a contract worker before going to GM I often wondered how things would have gone there with Bob Lutz in charge vs the evil Bob Eaton! I think he could have made them a pretty awesome company without tying up with another company that then sucked away all their capital!
This a shot across the bow of Mary Barra and if she makes another critical error.. she will be replaced by Reuss as GM’s CEO.
It’s great to see real car people running GM, including Barra. GM is well on it’s way to having the best products in their entire existence. And this is coming from a Ford guy.
Wrecker(Barra) and Crash(Reuss) Great combo for taking out GM themselves. GM will be bankrupt (2.0) within 5 years.
Aside from the photos, if you’ve met him in person, he comes across as an undertaker.
Maybe he is the right choice
Hey it’s crash, Mary’s Bu** kisser. This wont help.
Might want to note that Mark has been one to fight the accountants but even he can not override their actions.
He fought a tough battle over the CT6 and lost several battles.
The financial people allocate the money and no one single person can override them with out risk of their job if major losses are incurred.
As a Bob Lutz said there are people on both sides bean counters and engineers that can destroy a program by over and under spending.
Mark Reuss was very well respected when here at Holden. He did back the RWD Commodore and genuinely liked the car. (Especially the V8) He instigated exporting it to the US as the Chevy SS and having the brand used in Nascar. I really think he loved his time here because it was a very dynamic, hands on workforce. He was very approachable and was really an honorary Aussie! More so than some of the others that came and went. In his time here he was restoring an FC Holden with his son and took it back to the US with him. Any Dad that does that with his son is alright by me. I hope he does well!!
I don’t see how one guy can function well in all of those roles. It is simply impossible for one person to provide focus and leadership in so many dissimilar but crucial positions at GM even if that person were exceptionally talented which Ruess doesn’t appear to be. Folks at GM seem to be promoted not because they’ve done well in a prior role and provided sterling leadership and results but rather just because they are there.
GM needs to split up management of the many roles Ruess holds (President of General Motors, Head of the Global Product Group, President of Cadillac, Vehicle Quality guru) and bring in outside talent not schooled in the “GM Way”. The company has been losing market share and continuing to shrink for 40 years so obviously outside talent and new ideas are needed. Mark is not only a lifer himself but his father, Lloyd, was too.
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