Karen L. Healy, 52, is vice president of Delphi Corporation, corporate affairs, marketing communications and facilities. She is also a member of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company's top policy-making group. Additionally, Healy serves as the executive champion for Delphi's Corporate Affairs Task Team and is the chairman of the Delphi Foundation.
Healy joined General Motors (GM) in June 1976 at the former Fisher Body Division General Offices. She held a variety of assignments in personnel, labor relations and training at the division's central office and several plant operations.
In 1985, Healy joined the public relations staff for Fisher Guide Division. She was promoted in January 1986 to manager of employee communications for the former Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac (B-O-C) Group and later to senior administrator of public affairs for B-O-C.
In 1993, Healy was named to director of media communications for the former GM Automotive Components Group (ACG) Worldwide. In January 1995, she was promoted to director of communications for the group, renamed Delphi Corporation. She was promoted to director of corporate communications at GM's Central Office in June 1995.
Healy returned to the plant environment in July 1996, when she was named manufacturing manager for Delphi's Flint East Operations, Plants 6 and 7. She was named executive director of communications for Delphi in June 1997 and elected a Delphi vice president in charge of corporate affairs in November 1998. She was named to her current position effective January 1, 2000. |