Rod Gillum to Retire from General Motors
Posted on Aug 03, 2009 by Josh Merva in Business
DETROIT – General Motors Company today announced that Rod Gillum, vice president, corporate responsibility and diversity, and chairman of the GM Foundation, has elected to retire effective October 1.
Gillum, 59, joined GM in 1979 from the National Labor Relations Board, where he was an attorney. In addition to assignments at Saturn as managing director for strategic planning, and as vice president, general counsel and secretary, Gillum served as secretary to the GM board of directors. In a leadership position on the GM Legal Staff, he also served as chief personnel, labor relations and benefits attorney for the corporation. Gillum assumed his current position, with responsibility for global corporate social responsibility, including community relations, philanthropy, business ethics, and diversity, in 1997.
“Rod’s leadership has helped make GM a good corporate citizen in metro Detroit and the many other communities in which we live and do business,” said Fritz Henderson, GM president and CEO. “We wish him the best as he begins the next chapter of his life.”
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