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Jeffrey J. Owens 51 is a vice president of Delphi Corporation and president of Delphi Electronics & Safety. He also is responsible for regional coordination in Asia in addition to his divisional responsibilities. He has global responsibility for 19 manufacturing and 31 engineering resource centers with more than 29 000 employees in 16 countries who build more than 310 000 sensors power modules radios instrument clusters and electronic control modules every day. In addition the Delphi division produces about 1 million integrated circuits (ICs) each day making it one of the largest in-house manufacturers of custom ICs in the United States. He is also a member of the Delphi Strategy Board the company’s top policy-making group and the executive champion for the engineering and program management task teams.
Throughout his career Owens has served in a variety of engineering manufacturing finance and management assignments. Owens began his automotive career in 1973 as a General Motors Institute engineering student sponsored by the Delco Electronics Division of General Motors (GM) in Kokomo Ind. He joined Delco in 1978 as an associate manufacturing engineer where he established integrated circuit assembly to support the advent of engine controls.
Following an assignment in finance in 1982 Owens returned to engineering from 1984 to 1990 and was instrumental in helping to establish high-volume solid-state electronics capability for Delco. In 1990 he was named managing director and moved to Tucson Ariz. to establish HE Microwave a joint venture with Hughes Aircraft for the design and manufacture of automotive warning systems and military radar components.
Owens was promoted to director of Advanced Engineering and Systems Integration in 1994 after returning to Delco and in 1995 he was named executive director of Emerging Products & Systems. In 1997 Owens was named director of Systems and Software Engineering. He became the product line executive for Integrated Body in January 1998 and in September of that year was promoted to general director of Engineering. Owens was named general director of Business Line Management in October 2000. He was named to his current position effective September 2001.
Owens earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute) in 1978 and a master’s degree in business administration from Ball State University in 1983. He completed the Global Executive Program at Duke University in 1997.
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