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Mr. Szygenda has served as Group Vice President and Chief Information Officer of General Motors Corporation since January 2000. Mr. Szygenda joined General Motors Corporation in June 1996 as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Mr. Szygenda is a member of GM’s Automotive Strategy Board and is responsible for the Information Systems & Services organization. Accountable for the management of all information technology efforts within General Motors, he is directly responsible for developing and implementing GM’s global digital business strategy. Before joining GM, Mr. Szygenda was vice president and chief information officer at Bell Atlantic Corporation, in Arlington, Virginia, a position he held since June 1993. His main initiatives involved reengineering Bell Atlantic’s business processes and delivering information systems to meet the new electronic generation. Mr. Szygenda has been recognized for his business and technology leadership through awards that include Industry Week’s 2001 Technology Leader of the Year, Information Week’s 2002 Chief Information Officer of the Year and CIO Magazine’s 20/20 Vision Award recognizing his contributions in driving the information age. In 2003, he was inducted in the CRN Computer Industry Hall of Fame; in 2005, he received the Computerworld Honors Program Leadership Award; in 2006, he received the Automotive News Industry All Star Award and, in 2007, he was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame. Mr. Szygenda holds a BS degree in computer science from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1970 and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas in 1975. Mr. Szygenda also received an honorary professional degree and honorary doctorate degree in engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.
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