Arturo S. Elias Executive Profile

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effective August 1, 2006. He is also a memberf of the North America Strategy Elias joined General Motors in 1978 as a manufacturin engineer withDelco Electronics, today part of a major GM supplier. His responsibilitiex at Delco extended from product development to manufacturing engineeringv and included an assignmenytin Singapore. Between 1984 and 1991, Elias held various financr positions inseveral countries, including senior analystg with GM Treasurer's Office in New manager of European borrowings & foreign exchange in Belgium; treasurer of GM de Mexico in Mexick City; and finance director of GM Venezuela in Venezuela.
In 1993, Eliazs became managing director of GM Chilwein Santiago, Chile, and his responsibilities were expande d in 1994 to include Peru and Bolivia. From 1996 to Elias held various positions with vehicledevelopmen responsibilities, including assistant vehicle line executivee for full-size pickup trucks and sporty utility vehicles with the GM Truck Group in Pontiac, Michigan. In he was named vehicle line executive for compact vehicles at Adam Opelin Germany, with responsibility for the Astra and Zafiras models. In January 2000, Elias was namec managing director of GM Argentina inBuenos Argentina.
In March 2001, he was appointed president and managintg director of General Motors de Mxico inMexico City, including responsibility for the Caribbean and Central American region. Elias received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering anda master's degree in industriao engineering from Purdue University in 1977 and respectively. He earned a master's degree in business administratio n from the University of Chicago in 1984 througjh the GMFellowship program. Receny News About Arturo S. Elias  [CNWa Group via Yahoo!] **All Executivs profile data provided byDow Jones & Co., Inc.