Gary Alan Tilson, who was until now the service director for after sales at GM International Operations or GIMO, has now been appointed as the managing director of CJSC GM Avtovaz. GM confirmed the appointment in a recent press release.
Tilson comes as a replacement for Jeffery Glover, who served the company for three and a half years and made sure his time there was one of the company’s best. Glover will now return to Germany, where he will work as project acceleration director.
Gary Tilson has spent 29 years at General Motors, working in China and the United States. The decision for Gary Tilson to join the GM Avtovaz venture was taken by the group’s six-seat board of directors chosen by the shareholders of the GM Avtovaz joint venture. The board itself was recently reconstituted.
Jim DeLuca, who is the vice president for international production at GM, will take up John Buttermore’s place on the board. GM also has two other representatives on the board, who are Jim Bovenzi and Julian Blissett. Jim Bovenzi is the managing director and president of GM’s Russian division and Julian Blissett is the vice president for strategic business alliances at General Motors International Operations. Three Avtovaz representatives were also selected to serve on the board. These are Igor Komarov, who is the president of Avtovaz, Oleg Lobanov, who is the vice president for corporate development and finance, and Yug Francois Ge-rard Demarchelier, who is vice president for technical development and production.