She played an integral role in some significant deals at GM including the divestiture of its European arm Opel and the acquisition of self-driving vehicle startup Cruise, GM said in a statement.
One more moment of pride for the city of Chennai, as city native Dhivya Suryadevara has been appointed as Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of the US largest automaker, General Motors. It may be noted that Google CEO Sundar Pichai was another Chennaiite who has made it to the top of the global multinational internet major.
Suryadevara, 39, currently the vice president, Corporate Finance, will succeed Chuck Stevens, the GM's present CFO, on September 1, the company said in a statement.
She was in Chennai till her college days after her bachelor's and master's degrees in Commerce from the University of Madras and moved to the US at the age of 22 to pursue her MBA from Harvard University. She worked at UBS and PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining the Detroit-based GM in 2005 at the age of 25.
According to an interview published in the Real Simple magazine, earlier, she spent most of her childhood in Chennai.
Her father passed away when she was very young and mother raised Dhivya and her two siblings on her own. She completed her graduation in Commerce from the University of Madras.
She elaborated to the magazine that her mother made sure that their education was taken care of well.
Suryadevara, an Indian-American chartered financial analyst, will report to GM's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mary Barra. Chennai perhaps is one of the few cities globally which produced women leaders for the auto industry.
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