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Terence (Terry) B. Johnsson GM LAAM President, GM Middle East Operations |
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Terence (Terry) B. Johnsson, 46, was promoted to GM LAAM Vice President, Middle East Operations on June 1st, 2007. He has been Managing Director, General Motors Middle East since May 1, 2004. Since his arrival, GM Middle East has achieved a near 3-fold increase in sales. This has been driven by a series of exciting new product launches, programs to enhance and improve the customer experience, and regional support of education and training initiatives, and nearly $1 billion of dealer investment in expanded sales and service capacity. Prior to coming to the Middle East, Johnsson was responsible for GM Asia Pacific Vehicle Sales, Service and Marketing, located in Singapore. Between September 1998 and March 2000, Johnsson was Managing Director for General Motors Taiwan. He led a transformation of GM Taiwan through the introduction of GM’s first online sale in Taiwan, GM AutoWorld, a network of wholly owned and affiliated dealerships, and the establishment of a new GM wholly-owned dealer group. Johnsson joined GM in December 1983 in the Detroit headquarters as an analyst in the Marketing and Product Planning Staff. He held a variety of leadership positions in product strategy, sales and marketing in the U.S., Asia and Europe. In 1991, he was promoted to Regional Sales Director, Central Zone for GME/Opel Germany. He went to Taiwan for the first time in 1993, to launch the first locally assembled Opel Astra. Johnsson moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1995 with the assignment of re-engineering GM’s distribution operations. A native of Australia and a fluent speaker of German, Johnsson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and Economics from Andrews University in Michigan, U.S.A., and a Masters degree in International Business Administration from the University of South Carolina, U.S.A. June 2007 |
