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Chrysler CFO to Speak at Annual Automotive Outlook Conference

18 November 1998

Chrysler CFO Gary Valade to Speak at 11th Annual Automotive Outlook Conference in January

    GLENVIEW, Ill., Nov. 17 -- Gary Valade, Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of the nation's third largest automaker,
Chrysler Corporation, will speak at the Society of Automotive Analysts (SAA)
11th annual Automotive Outlook conference on January 4, 1999 in Detroit, Mich.
SAA's conference theme, "Access to the Thought Leaders," promises to deliver
insights from the cream of the automotive analyst crop.
    Valade will discuss the effects of OEM changes for the automotive supplier
community, and will focus specifically on the recent Daimler Chrysler merger
and its implications for suppliers.  He joins leading professionals from Ford
Motor Company, General Motors and Chrysler, and analysts from such leading
firms as Furman Selz, The University Group, and Wellington Fund in addressing
issues facing automotive analysts as the millennium rapidly approaches.
    A Chrysler team member since 1968, Valade was elected a Vice President in
November 1991, appointed CFO in May 1993, and will oversee all purchasing
functions for the newly formed Daimler Chrysler.  He is responsible for
Chrysler's Treasurer's, Corporate Controller's, and General Auditor's Offices,
as well as Information Services, Chrysler Financial Corporation, and Chrysler
Pentastar Aviation, Inc.  Valade is also the Chair of the Michigan Colleges
Foundation and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chrysler Corporation
Fund.
    The 11th Annual Automotive Outlook Conference will be held at the Cobo
Center in Detroit on Monday, January 4, 1999, in conjunction with the North
American International Auto Show.  Automotive analysts, consultants and
planners, advertisers, suppliers and manufacturers, financial strategists, and
automotive press are invited to attend.
    For additional information, including conference registration, contact SAA
member services at 847-375-4722; fax 847-375-4777; or e-mail at
info@autoanalyst.org.
    The Society of Automotive Analysts is dedicated to providing outstanding
educational programs and superior networking opportunities to its members by
offering conferences, programs, and other forums in which to discuss, debate,
and learn about a broad variety of subjects and timely industry issues.  The
society is comprised of over six hundred individual members.