GM Appoints New Head for China Venture

General Motors Co. has named Raymond Bierzynski as executive vice president of its SAIC-GM-Wuling minivehicle joint venture in China, effective immediately.

He succeeds Karl Slym, who left the partnership in August to become managing director of India's Tata Motors Ltd.

Bierzynski had been executive director of electrification strategy for GM China since June 2011. The company says it will name his replacement in that job later.

Bierzynski began his career in 1978 at GM's Cadillac unit in Detroit. After a series of engineering jobs, he served stints as president of GM's Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (2004-2007) and vice president of GM Asia Pacific and GM executive director of engineering in China (2007-2009).