new delhi gm india today announced that president and managing director kaher kazem will hand over the reins of the company to chief financial officer sanjiv gupta from september 1 sanjiv gupta is an experienced gm leader who has been a driving force behind our strategy sanjiv will continue to lead our plan to achieve better financial performance in india said gm executive vice president and president of gm international stefan jacoby gupta said i have the benefit of inheriting a strong leadership team we are all aligned on turning around the financial performance and delivering an orderly business transformation that supports our customers our employees and our partners gupta will combine his role as gm india president and managing director with his finance leadership responsibilities gupta joined gm in 2003 working in critical roles in vssm auto financing business planning corporate finance and treasury and financial planning and analysis in the us and canada in february 2012 he was promoted to director north america financial planning and analysis and in september 2013 was appointed director us sales operations finance gupta joined gm india in may 2016 also read why tata sons n chandrasekaran has reversed turnaround initiatives by tata motors ceo guenter butschek kazem will take over as president and ceo of gm korea gm indias transformation is on track he said the overwhelming majority of dealers have accepted our transition package we have begun exports of chevrolet beat sedans to latin america and our consolidation of manufacturing operations continues this is the right time to hand over responsibility to sanjiv who will continue to lead the business transformation etauto published on aug 17 2017 at 1208 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app gm general motors kaher kazem sanjiv gupta homenewsindustrygm india announces leadership transition