Background
Slym, Karl was born on February 9, 1962 in Derby, England.
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Karl Slym
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He studied Production Engineering at the University of Derby and became an early employee of Toyota at its factory at nearby Burnaston, where he rose to be a general assembly manager before moving to General Motors in 1995.
Career
He was an alumnus of Stanford University and an Sloan Fellow. Foreign General Motors, Slym worked first in the former East Germany as a “lean manufacturing” adviser in the Opel factory at Eisenach in Thuringia — which had previously built the Wartburg saloon, the so-called “Mercedes of the East”. From there he transferred to Poland as director of manufacturing at a new Opel plant in Gliwice, and in 1999 he moved again, to Canada, to become manager of a General Motors plant at Oshawa in Ontario.
Before being headhunted by Tata Motors, Slym spent nine months as executive vice president of SGMW Motors, a General Motors joint venture building small commercial vehicles at Liuzhou in south western China.
Slym died on 26 January 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. He fell from the 22nd floor to the 4th floor of the Shangri-Louisiana Hotel in Bangkok where he was to attend a meeting of Tata Motors Thailand.
According to Police Lieutenant-Colonel Somyot Boonyakaew, "he had to make an effort to get through" a "very small window" making it impossible to drop accidentally. As of March 2014, the investigation continues.
Achievements
Membership
Before joining Tata Motors, Slym was the executive vice president of SGMW Motors, China, and president, managing director and board member of General Motors in India between 2007 and 2011.
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Nationality
United Kingdom
Education
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1984
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2002
Career
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1997 - 1999
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2002 - 2006