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Karen L. Healy

Vice President, Delphi Corporation
Corporate Affairs, Marketing and Operations Support Group

Karen L. Healy, 54, is vice president of Delphi Corporation, corporate affairs, marketing 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.

Healy earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Michigan State University in 1976. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts in Detroit and was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Michigan Manufacturers Association. She is also on the board of the National Safety Council. She is on the advisory board of Menttium, an organization that sponsors and promotes programs aimed at the upward mobility and mentoring of women in business. Healy was named one of Automotive News "100 Leading Women in the Automotive Industry" in both 2000 and 2005; "The Detroit News Businesswoman of the Year" for 2000; and a member of Crain's Detroit Business list of the most influential Women in Southeast Michigan for 2001.