SPE® to Give General Motors' James Queen Its Executive Leadership Award This November
(06/30/07) TROY, (DETROIT) MICH. - James E. Queen, group vice-president for Global Engineering at General Motors Corp. (GM) has been named the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Executive Leadership Award by the Automotive Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers International (SPE®). Queen will receive his award at the 37th-annual SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Gala on November 7, 2007 at Burton Manor(www.burtonmanor.net/) in the suburbs of Detroit.
Started in 2004, the Executive Leadership Award honors transportation-industry executives who have demonstrated leadership in integrating polymeric materials on global vehicle platforms and who are recognized - both within their industry as well as in their community - as leaders. Although this award's recipient may not have been directly involved in fostering technical advances with polymers - as recipients
of SPE‟s Lifetime Achievement Award have done - the honoree will have led his/her company to profitability, increased marketshare, and been at the helm of new vehicle launches that were considered a commercial success. Only three previous executives have received this award. These include: James Padilla, chief-operating officer and president, Global Automotive Operations, Ford Motor Company; Tom Edson, director, Applied Material and Manufacturing Technology, Advanced Vehicle Engineering, at Daimler
Chrysler; and James. A. McCaslin, president and chief-operating officer at Harley-Davidson Motor Company.
