GM Hires Dell’s Sustainability Head as New Chief Sustainability Officer – ESG Today

Automotive large Basic Motors introduced the appointment of Cassandra Garber as its new Chief Sustainability Officer. Garber joins GM after serving as CSO for know-how large Dell. The brand new appointment follows the retirement in November 2024 of GM’s former CSO Kristen Siemen after 30 years with the corporate.

In her new position, Garber will oversee GM’s dedication to accountable enterprise practices and environmental and social impression. GM has set a sequence of sustainability commitments over the previous few years, together with objectives to turn into carbon impartial in world merchandise and operations by 2040, and to achieve 100% renewable power for its U.S. websites by the tip of 2025, and globally by 2035. The corporate has additionally invested closely within the transition to electrical autos following its 2021 pledge to eradicate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty autos by 2035, though the business’s EV shift has hit headwinds in current months on slower than anticipated client uptake and a much less supportive regulatory panorama.

In a Linkedin put up asserting her new appointment, “buying and selling keyboards for dashboards,” Garber stated:

“I grew up with automobiles. My grandfather owned a radiator store in our small city of Huntingburg, Indiana. Each likelihood he received, my dad would take us to automobile dealerships simply to go searching. He offered automobiles for awhile. My husband was a service advisor (and a dang good one). If you recognize my household in any respect, you recognize we love epic street journeys with our three youngsters and two canine – these very adventures have led us to check with our 2021 GMC Yukon XL as our front room on wheels. (Keep tuned for an epic household street journey in an all-electric Cadillac Escalade IQ quickly!)… As luck would have it, my first day at GM is Earth Day. Certain feels prefer it was meant to be.”

Garber joined Dell’s sustainability workforce in 2021, taking over the Chief Sustainability Officer position final yr. Previous to becoming a member of Dell, she served in a sequence of sustainability roles at firms together with McKesson, 3M and The Coca-Cola Firm.

Garber added:

“If there’s one factor I’ve realized throughout my profession, it’s that sustainable enterprise is wise enterprise. Lowering threat, seizing innovation and development alternative WHILE delivering actual and significant impression is the place it’s at. It’s laborious, however when executed, and executed effectively, it’s transformative for each enterprise and our world.”