General Motors’s CEO Mary Barra, and 39-year old Dhivya Suryadevara are the first women in their respective positions in the auto industry, as no other major global automaker has a female CEO, nor a CEO and CFO who are both female.
An Indian-American woman, Dhivya Suryadevara has been named the chief financial officer of the United States’ largest automaker, General Motors.
Dhivya Suryadevara, currently the vice president of corporate finance, will succeed Chuck Stevens, GM’s present CFO, on September 1, the company said in a statement.
Chennai-born Suryadevara, 39, has been GM’s vice president of corporate finance since July 2017. She will report to chief executive officer (CEO) Mary Barra, 56, who has been head of the automaker since 2014.