LOS ANGELES — Hyundai Motor America’s chief authorized officer, Jerry Flannery, is retiring after 34 years with the automaker. He joined simply two years after it established U.S. operations.
Flannery began with Hyundai as senior company counsel in 1987 earlier than being promoted to normal counsel after which to chief authorized officer in 2003. Flannery, 63, additionally was interim CEO by most of 2017, Hyundai mentioned in a press release.
“Since almost the beginning of Hyundai promoting automobiles within the U.S., Jerry has been a trusted counselor and passionate advocate of the model and our prospects,” mentioned José Muñoz, CEO of Hyundai Motor North America. “We would not be the corporate we’re at the moment with out his imaginative and prescient, management and integrity.”
Previous to becoming a member of Hyundai, Flannery was a senior legal professional within the workplace of the final counsel at Ford Motor Co. His retirement from Hyundai is efficient March 1, and the corporate has began a seek for his successor.
“It has been the honour of my profession to assist Hyundai construct and develop its U.S. enterprise,” Flannery mentioned within the assertion. “The Hyundai story has been one in all spectacular transformation and I am enormously happy with every little thing we completed collectively.”
Flannery was interim CEO after the automaker fired U.S. chief government Dave Zuchowski within the closing days of 2016 for failing to fulfill inside gross sales targets.
Flannery is amongst a number of high Hyundai executives to retire or go away the corporate since Muñoz took over as CEO in Might 2019 and started reshaping the chief crew. They embody a brand new gross sales chief, advertising chief, product improvement chief, communications director and CEO of luxurious model Genesis.