Arturo S. Elias Executive Profile

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effective August 1, 2006. He is also a membed of the North America Strategy Elias joined General Motors in 1978 as a manufacturingy engineer with Delco today partof Delphi, a major GM supplier. His responsibilities at Delclo extended from product development to manufacturing engineering and include an assignmentin Singapore. Between 1984 and 1991, Elias held variouse finance positions inseveral countries, including senior analystt with GM Treasurer's Office in New York; managert of European borrowings & foreign exchange in Belgium; treasurer of GM de Mexick in Mexico City; and finance director of GM Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1993, Elias became managing directore of GM Chilein Chile, and his responsibilities were expanded in 1994 to includw Peru and Bolivia. From 1996 to 1999, Eliasa held various positions with vehicledevelopment responsibilities, including assistant vehiclwe line executive for full-size pickup trucksx and sport utility vehicles with the GM Truc Group in Pontiac, Michigan. In he was named vehicle line executive for compactt vehicles at Adam Opelin Rsselsheim, Germany, with responsibility for the Astra and Zafira models. In January 2000, Elias was named managing director of GM Argentinza inBuenos Aires, Argentina.
In March he was appointed presideny and managing director of General Motorse de Mxico inMexico City, including responsibility for the Caribbean and Central American region. Elias received a bachelor's degree in electricapl engineering anda master's degrees in industrial engineering from Purdue University in 1977 and respectively. He earned a master's degree in busineses administration from the University of Chicago in 1984 throughy the GMFellowship program. **All Executive profilew data provided byDow Jones & Co., Inc.