Alicia Boler Davis
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![]() Alicia Boler Davis speaks for Brightline Project Management Institute in 2017 | |
Alma mater | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Northwestern University |
Employer | Amazon |
Known for | Automotive Engineering |
Alicia Boler Davis is Sr. Vice President of Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon.
Early life and education[]
Boler Davis spent her childhood fixing broken items in her home, where she grew up with her mother Denise and 3 siblings.[1][2] She attended a high school program at the General Motors Institute and she decided she wanted to work there.[3][4] She completed her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at Northwestern University.[5] She was the first generation of her family to attend college, following her sister Kimberly Boler who studied at Harvard University and became an attorney.[1] She followed this with a master's degree in engineering science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[5] She completed a master's in business administration at Indiana University.[1]
Career[]
In 1994 Boler Davis joined General Motors as a manufacturing engineer.[5] She was plant manager at the Michigan Orion Assembly facility.[5] She was the first black woman to become a plant manager.[6][7] She simultaneously led the plant at Pontiac Stamping.[8]
She was appointed Vice President of Customer Experience at General Motors in 2012.[5] She was promoted to Senior Vice President for Global Customer Experience in 2013.[9] She was part of the Forbes Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit in 2014.[10] That year she spoke at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.[11] She was promoted to Executive Vice President of global manufacturing in 2016 and leads 180,000 employees.[1][12] Since 2016 she has served on the board of directors at General Mills.[6][13] She joined the board of Beaumont Health in 2017.[14]
In 2018 Boler Davis became the sixth woman to be named Black Engineer of the Year.[15][16][17][18] She has championed and mentored women in the automotive industry, and serves as the Executive Liaison for the GM WOMEN leadership board.[19][20]
Awards and honors[]
2018 Black Engineer of the Year[21]
2018 Business Insider Most Powerful Female Engineers in the World[6]
2017 Automotive News All Star in Manufacturing[22]
2016 Trumpet Awards Corporate Executive of the Year[23]
2014 Women of Color Magazine Technologist of the Year[24]
2013 Fortune magazine Top 10 most powerful women in the automotive industry[25][26]
2011 Michigan Chronicle Woman of Excellence[27]
2010 Automotive News 100 Leading Women in the North American Automotive Industry[28]
In February Ms. Davis Joined Amazon
References[]
- ^ a b c d "GM VP Alicia Boler-Davis wins Black Engineer of Year". Detroit News. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "How A GM Exec Juggles Work & Raising 2 Boys". Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Alicia Boler Davis". Monarch Magazine. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ WASHINGTON, FRANK S. "1st African-American woman to manage a GM assembly plant". Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ a b c d e "Corporate Officers". www.gm.com. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ a b c "The 39 most powerful female engineers of 2018". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Queen of Cars". dynamath.scholastic.com. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Alicia Boler-Davis | Speakers Bureau and Booking Agent Info". www.allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "US: GM targets quality with expanded role for Boler-Davis". 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "GM's Alicia Boler-Davis on encouraging girls to pursue STEM careers". Fortune. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Women in STEM: 10 quotes by GM's Alicia Boler-Davis - The Bay State Banner". The Bay State Banner. 2014-12-22. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "General Mills Elects Alicia S. Boler Davis to Board of Directors". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "General Mills Elects Alicia S. Boler Davis to Board of Directors". investors.generalmills.com. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Beaumont Health welcomes new board member Alicia Boler Davis". www.beaumont.org. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Alicia Boler Davis is 2018 Black Engineer - US Black Engineer". US Black Engineer. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "GM's Alicia Boler-Davis Selected 2018 Black Engineer of the Year". DiversityInc. 2017-12-05. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ Deen, Lango (2018). "THE TRAILBLAZING Alicia Boler Davis". US Black Engineer and Information Technology. 42 (1): 22–27. JSTOR 26305574.
- ^ "GM VP Alicia Boler-Davis Wins Black Engineer of Year". Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Alicia Boler Davis GM Women Be Bold". Autonews. 2017-11-03. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "ALICIA BOLER DAVIS SELECTED 2018 BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR". Indie Soul Magazine. 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Alicia Boler Davis is 2018 Black Engineer of the Year - US Black Engineer". US Black Engineer. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Executive vice president of global manufacturing, General Motors". Autonews. 2017-11-26. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "GM's Alicia Boler-Davis Honored During 24th Annual Trumpet Awards". GM Authority. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Introducing the 2014 Technologist of the Year: Alicia Boler-Davis". The News Wheel. 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "10 Most Powerful Women in autos". Fortune. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ Fortune Magazine (2014-12-09), Alicia Boler-Davis of General Motors at MPW Next Gen | Fortune, retrieved 2018-09-08
- ^ "Alicia Boler-Davis ventures where others dare not go". womenofcolor.online. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry" (PDF). Autonews. 2015-11-09. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- Living people
- Automotive engineers
- African-American engineers
- American automotive engineers
- Northwestern University alumni
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
- Indiana University alumni
- General Motors executives
- 21st-century African-American people