Robert Brust Elected to Delphi Board
TROY, Mich., Feb. 9 Delphi Automotive Systems
today announced the election of Robert Brust, 57, to its board of directors.
Brust was elected Feb. 7 at a regular meeting of the company's board of
directors.
Brust is chief financial officer and executive vice president of Eastman
Kodak Company , a position he has held since January 2000. Brust
directs Kodak's global financial and information technology organization and
brings to Delphi more that 36 years of financial, manufacturing and
information technology experience from his diverse career.
"Delphi is privileged to have Bob join our board of directors," said
Delphi Chairman, President and CEO J.T. Battenberg III. "His rich experience
in manufacturing, information and consumer products and services will foster
Delphi's accelerated shift toward high-tech electronics and sales expansion to
customers outside the auto industry."
Preceding his tenure at Kodak, Brust was senior vice president and chief
financial officer of Unisys Corporation, where he directed the company's
financial operations. He is largely credited for strengthening Unisys'
balance sheet and achieving a significant upgrade in the company's credit
ratings.
Brust moved to Unisys following a distinguished 31-year career at General
Electric, where he last ran the finance operations of that company's plastics
division as it grew from $900 million in revenues to about $7 billion. He
joined GE in 1965, working in a variety of financial and financial management
positions in businesses as diverse as motors, capacitors, steam turbines and
generators, and engineering services. He joined the plastics division in
1983, directing the financial operation of that business through its dramatic
period of growth.
Brust holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Pennsylvania State
University and is a member of The Conference Board's Council of Financial
Executives.
In addition to Brust, Delphi's outside board members include:
* Virgis W. Colbert, executive vice president, Miller Brewing Company;
* Dr. Bernd Gottschalk, president, Association of the German Automobile
Industry;
* Shoichiro Irimajiri, former representative director and vice chairman,
Sega Enterprises, Ltd.;
* Susan A. McLaughlin, former president, Consumer Services, BellSouth
Telecommunications, Inc.;
* Oscar De Paula Bernardes Neto, senior partner and chairman, LID (Latin
American Internet Group);
* John D. Opie, retired vice chairman of the board and executive officer,
General Electric Company;
* Roger S. Penske, founder and chairman, Penske Corporation;
* Patricia C. Sueltz, executive vice president, Software Systems Group,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.;
* Thomas H. Wyman, Delphi's lead independent director and former
chairman, president and chief executive officer, CBS, Inc.
Delphi's inside directors include Battenberg, Chief Financial Officer Alan
S. Dawes, and Executive Vice President and Dynamics & Propulsion Sector
President Donald L. Runkle.
For more information about Delphi Automotive Systems, visit Delphi's
Virtual Press Room at http://www.delphiauto.com/vpr .