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EVP, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain at General Motors

General Motors Company (GM)
  • Date of Birth: 1 March 1956
  • Age: 70 years old
  • In the rating: #173 President

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Doug Parks was appointed executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain in October 2019.

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Prior to this appointment, Parks was vice president, Autonomous and Electric Vehicle Programs since February 2016. In this role, Parks delivered significant business results, including:

Launching Super Cruise, the industry’s first hands-free driving technology for compatible highways on the 2018 Cadillac CT6;
Overseeing the engineering team behind the Cruise AV, a production-intent autonomous vehicle built from the ground up without driver controls and with all the hardware necessary to operate safely on its own;
Leading the autonomous vehicle engineering team that produced three self-driving test vehicle generations in approximately 16 months; and
Leading the electrification team responsible for developing GM’s all-new electric vehicle architecture, as well as increasing the 2020 Chevrolet Bolt EV’s range to 259 - miles due to improvements in battery chemistry.
Parks also held the position of vice president, Global Product Programs, Group Vehicle Line Executive and Global Chief Engineer for Electric Cars, including the Chevrolet Volt. Parks spent three years in Germany as the global vehicle chief engineer for GM’s compact vehicles. He has also worked in a variety of engineering and finance roles at GM. He began his career with GM in 1984.

Education

Parks received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan Tech University in 1984 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan in 1988 through the GM Fellowship Program.

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Date of Birth 1 March 1956
Age 70 years old
Pisces Zodiac sign Pisces Fish - go with the flow People born under the sign of Pisces are mostly passive, devoid of perseverance, purposefulness and unstable. They are not able to withstand the circumstances, they are constantly hovering in dreams, believing that everything…
Monkey Chinese horoscope Monkey Monkey - energy and mind People born in the Monkey years, on the one hand, are smart, dexterous and agile. On the other hand, they are eccentric, contradictory and unreliable. All of them are rewarded with irascibility, a certain willfulness and wil…
Wolf Slavic horoscope Wolf Born under the Wolf sign of the Slavic horoscope, people often combine mythic memory with practical steadiness — reading cycles early and standing firm for those they call their own.
Osiris Egyptian horoscope Osiris The Egyptian sign of Osiris reflects divine patronage and a particular season of character in the ancient calendar. People born under this deity often feel motives early and carry a recognizable moral gravity.
Ash Druid horoscope Ash Ash bridges the practical and the meaningful. Born 18 February to 17 March, Ash people connect ideas, languages and people, making complex things understandable.
Kumbha Indian horoscope Kumbha The Vedic rashi Kumbha carries a sidereal rhythm of Jyotish — temperament, dharma leanings, and the ruling graha color how a person acts and chooses.
Poppy Flower horoscope Poppy The flower talisman Poppy reflects character through nature’s calendar — sensitivity, aesthetic sense, and seasonal rhythm shape daily choices.
Pisces — 2nd decan Decan horoscope Pisces — 2nd decan The Pisces — 2nd decan decan refines your zodiac sign with a sub-ruler accent — temperament, decision style, and inner strengths differ even within the same sun sign.

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