The new face of GM India

In Another sign of GM attaching importance to its Indian operations,General Motors Corp. has appointed Karl Slym as the new president and managing director of its Indian subsidiary

Slym replaces Rajeev Chaba who takes charge as the chairman and managing director of GM's unit in Egypt,Slym's appointment will take effect starting Oct. 1.

Mr. Slym is a Stanford University alumni, he is MSc. Management.,began his career with Toyota in England in 1990 as a supervisor, spending time training in Japan to learn its production system. He moved to GM and worked for it in Germany, then moved to Poland for three years at a new plant which made 175,000 Opel Astra cars a year. He's been at Oshawa as plant manager.

Mr. Slym was president at CAMI Automotive Inc. ,(CAMI) is an independently incorporated joint venture between Suzuki Motor Corporation and General Motors of Canada Ltd.Mr Slym was then in South Korea on a four year assignment as Vice President Quality for General Motors (G.M.) Daewoo and GM Asia Pacific from where he now moves to India.

Gm is at the point of transformation from being one of the market players to now trying to be one of the dominant ones and for this they have brought in somebody with global experience not that Mr.Rajeev Chaba was doing a bad job.,Mr. Slym sure will have a tough job trying to match the pace of growth his predecessor has set at Chevrolet India.

Time for GM to replace those chevrolet india promise ads with their new Bosses pics and his commitment for quality something he would be used to from his previous job.