General Motors (GM) is one of the largest automakers in the world. Each year, the company builds more than 9 million cars and trucks worldwide. Alicia Boler Davis is in charge of making sure all those vehicles get made. Among other responsibilities, the engineer-turned-executive is in charge of manufacturing at GM’s headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
Before she had this important job, Boler Davis started out as a tinkerer. As a child, she would take broken appliances apart and try to repair them. She wanted to figure out how they worked. That curiosity led her to study engineering in high school, college, and graduate school.
General Motors (GM) is one of the largest automakers in the world. Each year, the company builds more than 9 million cars and trucks worldwide. Alicia Boler Davis is in charge of making sure all those vehicles get made. Among other responsibilities, the engineer-turned-executive is in charge of manufacturing. She works at GM’s headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
Before she had this important job, Boler Davis started out as a tinkerer. As a child, she would take broken appliances apart. Then she would try to repair them. She wanted to figure out how they worked. That curiosity led her to study engineering in high school. She went on to study it in college and graduate school.