Another Holden man off to Detroit

GM HOLDEN’S executive director of corporate affairs Jason Laird is set to join his former Holden boss Mark Reuss at GM headquarters in Detroit.

Mr Reuss was recently named president of GM North America, and now Mr Laird has been appointed executive director of GM North American product and brand communications, starting next month.

Australian-born Mr Laird has had two stints with Holden in almost a decade with GM, the first as national manager corporate communications after joining Holden from Telstra in 2001 and most recently as executive director of corporate affairs.

In between, he was an associate director of GM Asia Pacific, based in China.

Samantha Read, currently Holden’s technical adviser to GM Holden chairman and managing direcrtor Alan Batey and the associate director of government relations in corporate affairs, will replace Mr Laird.

Ms Read has been with Holden since 2000, when she took up the role of strategic quality planner in the quality organisation. She holds a bachelor of engineering from Monash University.