GM China chairman to leave company

General Motors Corp. today announced that Phil Murtaugh, chairman and CEO of the GM China Group, will leave the company. Details of Murtaugh's replacement are being finalized and an announcement is pending.

Murtaugh has been a part of the GM organization in China since January 1996, serving a leadership role within Shanghai GM, the initial joint venture between GM and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. Group (SAIC), and later as chairman and CEO of the GM China Group, which oversees GM's seven joint ventures and two wholly owned enterprises in mainland China, and GM's operations in Taiwan and Hong Kong.