GM has expanded its global public policy team and is reinforcing its Washington office with a range of new hires.
According to a recent report from Automotive News, the new roles will help to support, among other things, GM’s push towards all-electric vehicles.
Joining the team is Zaina Shaath, now onboard as director of policy operations and protocol where she will lead event and meetings coordination. Shaath previously served at the White House as special assistant to the president and deputy director at the Office of Administration.
GM also brought on Darrell Doss as director of federal affairs, managing GM’s financial services and advocacy portfolio and supporting the automaker’s global diversity group and partnership with the Congressional Black Caucus. Doss has 15 years of experience working for congressional leaders in the house and Senate, and previously served as the caucus’s policy director under Chairwoman Joyce Beatty.
Effective April 25th, Alethea Gordon will serve as director of global affairs, joining GM after a career in the Defense Department and the U.S. State Department. In her new role, Gordon will work with key stake holders and advocate for GM on global issues.
Finally, Daniel Amick will join the team as manager of policy research and intelligence in support of GM’s business advocacy and priorities. Amick previously served as managing director at Martin+Crumpton Group.
In addition to the new hires, Hollyn Kidd Shuemann has been named executive director and head of federal affairs, effective April 16th. Shuemann previously served as executive director of federal affairs at GM. In the expanded role, Shuemann will work towards implementing GM’s political strategy and policy development with regard to the automaker’s “zero crashes, zero emissions, zero congestion” vision.
The new hires and expanded role follow GM’s continuing efforts to launch a bevy of new electric vehicles, with 30 new EV models set to launch globally by 2025. Most recently, GM CEO Mary Barra attended an EV industry meeting with the Biden Administration alongside several other major automakers. During the meeting, one of the central points of discussion was the Biden Administration’s plan to build 500,000 new EV chargers.
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Lobbyist…. For more government money…. Telling us to fork over 50K for a Chevy spark equivalent but with half the range and have the usable life…..
How about we fire them and hire more logistics people and engineers to figure out the supply chain to build cars people actually want???? That’s how you know scary Mary is a swamp animal and not a true leader.
American taxpayers and GM stockholders need to get ready to take it in the arse again, just like in 2008-’13. Failure to know one’s own limitations can lead to disaster, and Mary will find that out. This article shows just how heavily old, dumb GM is filled with tree huggers, dreamers and fools. Which non-progressive states has GM decided will have their air fouled by coal fired electric plants? Mary thinks hiring the right politicos will somehow lead to a more successful company. No, it won’t; not with GM doing the hiring. GM’s view of the future has us either in mass transit (with GM somehow involved) or in autonomous, electric vehicles that can be shut down if you clock too many miles in any given time period. You will also be removed from any/all driving chores, hence the no accidents, “prediction.” We will still pay in full for something we did not choose or want. That’s why they are in bed with the government. They are fully politicized. Your movements will be restricted, and any trips will have to be scheduled and approved (hence the “No Congestion” wish). And, you will still be billed for “charging/upkeep” and “insurance services.” Those payments will be taken right out of your bank account. Who will be responsible if your “clean” autonomous car kills some kids in a crosswalk or burns a drive-thru down due to a high voltage, short-circuit problem or “poor previous repairs” problem? You will still be responsible, and you had nothing to do with it. Will we pay by the mile, the kilowatt or? Mary’s view of the future for the U.S. is just like China’s. Controlled movements. Lockdowns. Social credits. The only problem is that Communist countries don’t allow for the amassing of wealth, or, as some wealthy Chinese businessmen have recently seen, the CCP will randomly seize it over political issues. How will GM operate in an environment of constricted profits, limited wealth and draconian gov’t regulations? GM can’t even perform recalls now. Hey GM, they don’t allow that crappy customer svc. in China! Just ask Tesla. America haters like Barra will only have themselves to blame when the coming recession precedes another “bigger” global economic collapse, with GM’s hand out, again. GM, please take your corporate (greed) empire completely to China now. Take the remaining overpriced Corvettes and Escalades to China right now. Why wait? You can earn social credits right now by donating those precious few “high end” ICE vehicles to the CCP. They actually don’t mind a little air pollution when nobody’s looking. Like. Right. Now. GM can look forward to building some new tanks for the CCP to run protesters over. Isn’t that what you’re saying, GM, when you cozy up to China in word and deed?
GM vehicles my family has owned since 1970: 61 Pontiac Tempest; 66 Chevelle SS396; 67 El Camino; 67 Sedan DeVille; 1971 Chevy Vega 2300 (new) ; 71 Cutlass Supreme cpe. x 2 (new); 71 Cutlass S cpe. ; 71 Pontiac Lemans Sport; 71 Camaro (new); 72 Pontiac Granville; 73 Trans Am 455 x 2; 74 Nova SS; 76 Nova cpe, 77 Nova Concours (new), 78 Malibu Classic cpe. (new), 79 Pontiac Firebird Formula; 81 Chev. Citation (new), 84 Buick Grand National, 85 Pontiac Parisienne (new), 86 Monte Carlo SS (new), 90 Lumina Euro Sedan (new), 91 Earnhardt Lumina (new), 92 Chevy Blazer (new); 94 Buick Roadmaster Limited wagon (new); 97 S10 LS (new); 1997 Chev. Blazer ; 2002 Chevy Blazer; 2013 Chevy Camaro; 2014 Camaro RS; 2014 Camaro RS/SS (new). 2014 GMC Terrain SLT (new).
We are an American family, not a dealer or wholesaler. Nothing since 2014–nothing predicted.
Nice diverse collection, I think I could come close?
More evidence that GM is becoming (if it is not already there) “government motors”. GM management is obviously looking for government help in the coming EV competition. GM management does not appear to have confidence in their product or their company’s ability to compete in a fair market and must anticipate needing a “finger on the scale” to insure “equity”. I am a former GM employee, owner, and stockholder and I am very concerned that gm management feels that this is the best way to invest stockholder $.
Legalized corruption at it’s finest!
Regrettably, a change of one word in a law, or in a regulation, can mean millions of dollars to GM, and other companies, regardless of the industry.
There is no such things as a “free market”. All markets, by definition, have rules, and the rules of that market provide advantages and disadvantages to the people involve in that market, whether producers or customers.
The real distortion to the market in the US is “Citizens United” ruling made by Republicans on the Supreme Court that allows for fully legal bribery of legislators. So, the average citizen goes up against billionaires. And we all pay price, market rules get billionaires even more they can use to further bribe legislators.
For GM to hire lobbyists simply reflect reality. If we ever get legislation to overturn the Republican “Citizens United” ruling, we’ll all be better for it.
That’s just the way it is. Welcome to the real world.
I agree that government corruption (at all levels) is and has been a major issue for decades if not centuries. As you said, welcome to the real world. However, Tesla is also in this same “real-world” and yet Tesla still manages to grow without a lobbying staff, extensive dealer network or even a PR group like GM has. They do it by building products that their customers want and and by making it easy to use their product by building the best charging network in the world. I would agree that Tesla did receive some government subsidy during their startup period but Tesla is now and will continue to be self-supporting and independent. My concern is that GM has been in business for 100 years and yet seems to lack the confidence in their future products and management so much that they decide to spend millions of dollars annually in hopes of receiving favorable treatment from government bureaucrats. This is how the “corrupt politicians” of both parties gain influence on great companies like GM and turn them into mediocre bureaucracies that lose market share every year.
We need to boycott all these corp. that hire ex govt. people.Next thing they will be telling us they will be hiring illegals.
Are they going to hire Hunter to do the artwork in the lobby too? gm stock continues to tank. Mary will do anything to try and dig herself out of this EV mess.