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Delphi Automotive Systems Promotes Jaffurs To Executive Director of its Worldwide Facilities Group DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE LOGO Delphi Automotive Systems Wordmark. (PRNewsFoto)[AG] TROY, MI USA 10/19/2000    

4 January 2001

Delphi Automotive Systems Promotes Jaffurs To Executive Director of its Worldwide Facilities Group DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE LOGO Delphi Automotive Systems Wordmark. (PRNewsFoto)[AG] TROY, MI USA 10/19/2000    
    TROY, Mich., Jan. 4 Delphi Automotive Systems
has named John Jaffurs executive director of Delphi's Facilities Services
Group (FSG), effective immediately.  In his new position, Jaffurs, 51, will
assume responsibility for Delphi's worldwide facilities management and related
activities.
    (Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001019/DELPHIAS )
    Reporting to Karen Healy, Delphi's vice president of corporate affairs and
facilities, he will guide the ongoing development of Delphi's FSG as a center
of expertise.  This will include real estate acquisition and disposition,
environmental activities, including stationary emissions, hazardous materials,
waste treatment and disposal, and facilities management, including
construction projects, repair, remediation and disposal.
    Jaffurs was most recently director of environmental services for Delphi,
overseeing the development of Delphi's environmental activity since the
company's separation from General Motors in 1999.  He began his career with GM
in 1968, where he held a variety of assignments in manufacturing, quality,
labor relations, chemical metallurgical processing and divisional
environmental activities.
    "John's strong leadership will help Delphi provide the most timely and
cost effective facilities, environmental, and real estate support services,"
said Healy.  "He will be a champion of Delphi's commitment to superior
financial and responsive performance."
    Jaffurs holds a bachelor's degree from Purdue University and a master's
degree from General Motors Institute (GMI), which is now Kettering University.
He currently resides in West Bloomfield, Mich.
    Delphi Automotive Systems, with headquarters in Troy, Mich., USA, Paris,
Tokyo and Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a world leader in mobile electronics and
transportation components and systems technology.  Delphi's three business
sectors -- Dynamics & Propulsion; Safety, Thermal & Electrical Architecture;
and Electronics & Mobile Communication -- provide comprehensive product
solutions to complex customer needs.  Delphi has approximately 216,000
employees and operates 184 wholly owned manufacturing sites, 44 joint
ventures, 53 customer centers and sales offices and 31 technical centers in 40
countries.  Delphi can be found on the Internet at http://www.delphiauto.com .