The Detroit News - Adam Opel AG's product planning chief Frank Weber has left General Motors Co. to pursue "other business opportunities," GM said today.
Weber, an engineer who oversaw all future planning for Opel vehicles, departs after less than two years in the job, and as GM strives to turn around its money-losing European subsidiary.
GM spokesman Klaus-Peter Martin said Weber left the company in early April, but didn't have an exact date. Opel has yet to name a successor.
"He has left the company to pursue other business opportunities," Martin said.
He declined to elaborate on why Weber left or where he was going.
Weber returned to Germany in November 2009 to take the product planning job after spending two years at GM in the United States as a lead engineer on the Chevrolet Volt, an extended-range electric car. A native of Germany, Weber joined Opel in 1991.
His departure comes amid other changes in Opel's top ranks. In March, GM named Karl Friedrich Stracke as chief executive for its Opel/Vauxhall unit, reporting to Nick Reilly, chairman of Opel and president of GM Europe.
Stracke moved into a position formerly held by Hans Demant, who stepped down last year and is now at Volkswagen AG.
