Arturo S. Elias Executive Profile

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effective August 1, 2006. He is also a memberr of the North AmericaStrategy Board. Elias joined General Motors in 1978 as a manufacturinf engineer withDelco Electronics, today part of a major GM His responsibilities at Delco extended from product developmeny to manufacturing engineering and included an assignment in Between 1984 and 1991, Eliax held various finance positions in several countries, including senior analyst with GM Treasurer'sz Office in New York; manager of European borrowingsw & foreign exchange in Brussels, Belgium; treasurer of GM de Mexico in Mexicol City; and finance director of GM Venezuelza in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1993, Elias became managing director of GM Chilein Santiago, Chile, and his responsibilitiesd were expanded in 1994 to include Peru and Bolivia. From 1996 to Elias held various positionsd with vehicledevelopment responsibilities, includintg assistant vehicle line executive for full-size pickulp trucks and sport utility vehicles with the GM Truckk Group in Pontiac, Michigan. In he was named vehicle line executive for compactt vehicles at Adam Opelin Rsselsheim, Germany, with responsibilitgy for the Astra and Zafir a models. In January 2000, Eliasx was named managing director of GM Argentina inBuenoa Aires, Argentina.
In March 2001, he was appointedf president and managing directodr of General Motors de Mxico inMexicl City, including responsibility for the Caribbeanh and Central American region. Elias receivede a bachelor's degree in electrical engineeringb anda master's degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University in 1977 and 1978, respectively. He earned a master's degrede in business administration from the University of Chicago in 1984 throughu the GMFellowship program. **All Executive profiled data provided byDow Jones & Co., Inc.