People: General Motors Co (GM)

Mr. Stephen J. Girsky serves as GM Vice Chairman, Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Global Product Planning, and Global Purchasing and Supply Chain and Interim President, Europe of General Motors Company, since July 12, 2012. In this position, he has overall responsibility for global corporate strategy, business alliances, new business development, global purchasing and supply chain, global product planning, OnStar and its related infotainment business unit. He continues to serve on the General Motors Board of Directors, a position he has held since July 10, 2009. He also became chairman of the Adam Opel AG Supervisory Board on November 21, 2011. Prior to becoming GM Vice Chairman, he briefly served as Senior Advisor to the Office of the Chairman. Previously, Steve was president of S. J. Girsky & Co, an independent advisory firm based in New York, where he applied more than twenty years of experience working with senior corporate and board executives, labor leaders, OEM leaders, suppliers and dealers, national and local policy makers. He also served as the lead director of Dana Holdings Corp. Steve also served as president of Centerbridge Industrial Partners, an affiliate of Centerbridge Partners, LP. Prior to Centerbridge, Steve was a special advisor to the CEO and CFO of General Motors Corporation from August 2005 to June 2006. In all, Steve has 25 years of automotive experience, including serving as managing director at Morgan Stanley and as senior analyst of the Morgan Stanley Global Automotive and Auto Parts Research Team. Steve holds a B.S. in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.