Stephen Girsky will retire from the GM Board of Directors and will not stand for reelection at the company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders in June 2016. Girsky joined the GM board in July 2009. as the company was struggling to emerge from bankruptcy.
“Steve brought to the company expertise and skills in a variety of important areas at a critical time in GM’s history,” said Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO at GM.
In addition to serving on GM’s board, Girsky was GM Vice Chairman from March 2010 through January 2014. During that time, he was responsible for several functional areas, including:
- Global corporate strategy,
- New business development,
- Global product planning and program management,
- Global connected customer/OnStar, and
- GM Ventures LLC and global research & development.
Girsky also served as Chairman of the Adam Opel AG Supervisory Board and as interim President of GM Europe during this time frame, a critical period in which the company established its current ‘Drive Opel 2022’ strategy. Girsky also held responsibility for GM’s Global Purchasing and Supply Chain function from 2011 to 2013, and served as Senior Advisor to General Motors from January 2014 to July 2014.
Girsky is currently President of S.J. Girsky & Co., a role he returned to in July 2014. The independent advisory firm is based in New York, where Girsky applies his more than 25 years of experience working with senior corporate and board executives, labor leaders, OEM leaders, suppliers and dealers, and national and local policy makers. Girsky also recently created a new company called VectoIQ, LLC, in which he is the managing partner.
