GM Announces Communications Personnel Moves

GM Announces Communications Personnel Moves 


DETROIT, Dec. 5  /PRNewswire/ -- General Motors Corp. today announced two
executive appointments within its Corporate Communications Staff.  Tom
Wilkinson, currently director of Communications for Chevrolet Motor Division,
has been named director of Corporate Technology Communications, replacing Joe
Jacuzzi, who will succeed Wilkinson at Chevrolet.  Both changes are effective
Jan. 1, 2004.

Wilkinson will be responsible for Communications activities supporting GM's
Design, Engineering, and Racing activities.  He had been director of
Communications for Chevrolet since January 2001.  Wilkinson joined GM in 1999 as
product publicity manager for Saturn Corp.  From 1995 to 1998, he was a vice
president and account supervisor with DMB&B Public Relations supporting Saturn
and Cadillac.  He also had 15 years of experience as an editor with Motor,
Popular Science and Modern Tire Dealer magazines.  A former freelance commercial
photographer and writer, Wilkinson graduated from the College of Wooster with a
bachelor's degree in political science.  He completed course work for a master's
degree in journalism at Kent State University and attended the Leadership
Development Program at the Center for Creative Leadership.

Jacuzzi will lead Chevrolet's Communications initiatives.  He had been director
of Corporate Technology Communications since July 2001.  Prior to that
assignment, he was director of Lifecycle Communications/Truck; product manager
for GM Truck Group/HUMMER Communications, and assistant director for Truck Group
Communications.

Jacuzzi joined GM in 1998 as manager of Midsize/Small Truck and Van
Communications.  He came to GM from Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America in
Cypress, Calif., where he had been product manager since 1991.  He also had
nearly three years of agency experience as an assistant account executive with
Manning Selvage & Lee and as a coordinator with Bob Thomas & Associates, both in
Southern California.  Jacuzzi graduated from the University of Southern
California with a bachelor's degree in journalism. 

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