Mark Reuss Named GM President

Mark Reuss, a General Motors lifer and licensed IMSA driver who has pushed the development of high-end performance cars, has been named the company’s president. He replaces Dan Ammann and becomes CEO Mary Barra’s number-two man.

Reuss, 55, became Cadillac president and executive vice president of nearly everything—engineering, design, safety, quality, purchasing, product planning—starting in June 2018. (Ammann is now head of Cruise Automation, the company’s autonomous car division.) Before that promotion, Reuss led the company’s purchasing and product development since 2013 and in 2009, months after his like-minded colleague Bob Lutz retired as vice chairman, he became president of the North American division. Reuss created GM’s performance division in 2001, which led to cars such as the Cadillac CTS-V wagon, Chevrolet Trailblazer SS, and the importation of Australian muscle from GM’s Holden nameplate. He has regularly lapped the Nürburgring as a GM test driver. His father, Lloyd Reuss, was GM president from 1990 to 1992. Reuss has been with the company since 1983.