Nick Pudar, Vice President of OnStar Planning and Business Development, is responsible for the managing the business planning activities and development of key business relationships critical to sustaining the OnStar business. He assumed this position on February 1, 2005.

Pudar started his General Motors career in 1981 as a GMI co-op student at GM of Canada's Windsor Transmission Plant.  In 1986, he joined the Stamping Plant Modernization team as part of the Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada Group and worked on metal-fab automation systems. In 1990, he joined the Industrial Engineering department in the Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada to coordinate cross-plant throughput improvement efforts for GM's newly modernized stamping plants. In 1992, Pudar joined the Die Management Group and held several assignments which included die engineering, die fabrication, and product program support.  In 1993, Pudar joined the Corporate Strategy staff as a business analyst.  Three years later, he was appointed Director of Corporate Strategy and Knowledge Development.  In 2002, Pudar was named Director of GM Strategic Initiatives.  In 2004 he became Director of Global Planning and Strategic Initiatives.

Pudar received his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in 1986 and his masters of science in management degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in 1990.

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