Borruso Steps Down As Head of Hella North America
PLYMOUTH, Mich., June 22 -- Joseph V. Borruso will retire this month as president and CEO of Hella North America.
Borruso will continue to serve in an advisory position reporting to the German-based automotive supplier's board of management and also will assume a non-operational position as president emeritus of Hella's North American operations.
Prior to joining Hella in 1999, he was executive vice president of North American sales for the Bosch Automotive Group headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
"Mr. Borruso has played a key role in the expansion of Hella's sales, product development and manufacturing operations in the NAFTA region," said Dr. Rolf Breidenbach, chief executive officer, Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. "As a member of the company's extended management board, he also was a major participant in the development of Hella's global automotive strategies."
Borruso began his career in the automotive industry in 1963 as a project engineer for the automotive lighting division of ABEX, where he advanced to vice president of sales and marketing. In 1977, he joined Wagner Brake and Lighting Products as vice president for OEM and heavy-duty aftermarket sales.
In 1983, he moved to Bosch where he went on to hold a series of key senior management positions in sales and marketing both in Germany and North America. From 1996 until 1999, he was executive vice president for Bosch's North American automotive sales group and was a member of Bosch Automotive Division's executive management team.
Fluent in both Italian and German, Borruso has a mechanical engineering and business background, having attended the City University of New York and Stanford University. He also served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
He is married, has two children and lives with his wife in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
With corporate headquarters in Lippstadt, Germany, Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. employs nearly 24,000 people at 65 manufacturing facilities, production subsidiaries and joint-venture companies in 18 countries. More than 2,000 engineers and technicians work in research and development. Hella supplies all of the world's leading automobile and automotive-systems manufacturers, as well as the automotive aftermarket.
The company's core fields of competency include lighting, electronics, complete vehicle modules, air conditioning systems, vehicle wiring systems and signal processing for original equipment manufacturers and the automotive aftermarket. Annual Hella Group sales of approximately $3.9 billion place Hella among Germany's top 100 industrial companies.
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