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Karl Slym became president and managing director of GM India on October 1 2007.
He had been vice president of quality for GM Asia Pacific and GM Daewoo since January 1 2006. Slym had earlier served as president and a member of the board of directors of CAMI Automotive General Motors' Canadian joint venture with Suzuki Motor Manufacturing Corporation since September 2002. Prior to that he had been plant manager of GM of Canada's Oshawa car plants 1 and 2 in Ontario Canada.
Slym was awarded a Sloan Fellowship from GM and in 2002 earned a master of science degree in business administration from Stanford University. He graduated in 1984 from his post-secondary education in production engineering at England's Derby University.
Slym began his career with GM in 1995 as a lean manufacturing advisor at the Opel Eisenach operation in Germany. He then moved on to general assembly manager at the same facility before becoming director of manufacturing for the new Opel Polska plant development in Gliwice Poland in 1997. In 1999 he moved to GM of Canada as assistant plant manager for both car plants the first of his two assignments in Oshawa ending in 2001 when he became plant manager.
Born in Derby England on February 9 1962 Slym worked for Toyota U.K. in Derbyshire rising to general assembly manager before joining GM. | 