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{{Short description|American business executive}}
[[File:New York Auto Show Mark Reuss - Chevrolet Malibu Reveal Press Conference (5654115101).jpg|thumb|Reuss in 2011]]
'''Mark L. Reuss''' is the current President of [[General Motors]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/GM/company-people/executive-profile/77746025|title=Mark L. Reuss|publisher=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|accessdate=December 5, 2020}}</ref><ref name="gm"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2019/jan/0103-reuss.html|title=Mark Reuss Named General Motors President|date=January 3, 2019|website=media.gm.com}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Mark's father is Lloyd E. Reuss, former president at GM from 1990 to 1992. He received an undergraduate degree from [[Vanderbilt University]] in 1986 and an MBA from [[Duke University]]'s [[Fuqua School of Business]] in 1990.

== Career ==
In 2001, he was appointed executive director of the [[General Motors Performance Division|Performance Division]], then executive director of Global Vehicle Integration, Safety and Virtual Development in 2005, and held the position of President of General Motors North America from 2009 until 2013.<ref name="gm">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gm.com/company/leadership/corporate-officers/mark-reuss.html|title=Mark Reuss {{!}} GM Corporate Officer|website=www.gm.com|language=en|access-date=2018-05-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Vlasic | first = Bill | date = December 4, 2009 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/business/05auto.html | title = Days After Chief's Ouster, G.M. Shuffles Top Ranks | work = [[The New York Times]] | accessdate = December 24, 2009}}</ref>

Later, he was [[chairman]] and [[managing director]] of [[Holden]], the Australasian [[General Motors]] (GM) operation from February 1, 2008, until September 1, 2009, overseeing GM's Australasian operations and is a director on the GM Asia Pacific Strategy Board.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.gm.com/corporate/investor_information/corp_gov/bios/reuss.jsp | title = Mark Reuss | publisher = [[General Motors]] | date = July 2008 | accessdate = February 27, 2009 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20081002033951/http://www.gm.com/corporate/investor_information/corp_gov/bios/reuss.jsp | archivedate = October 2, 2008}}</ref><ref name = "Holden future looks secure as Batey takes helm">{{cite web | last = Martin | first = Terry | date = July 24, 2009 | url = http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/EEB564A18ABC3B64CA2575FD000BCDB0 | title = Holden future looks secure as Batey takes helm | work = GoAuto | publisher = John Mellor | accessdate = August 2, 2009}}</ref>

Reuss was the vehicle line executive in charge of the highly criticized and unsuccessful [[Pontiac Aztek]] and [[Buick Rendezvous]]. However, he was praised for his tenure in the early 2010s for leading product development.

From September 1, 2009, Alan Batey took over his position as Reuss returned to the GM in the United States as a senior product development director.

On June 3, 2018, Reuss crashed the Corvette ZR1 pace car that he was driving in the first corner of the first pace lap of the second race at the [[2018 IndyCar Series|2018 Detroit Grand Prix]], leading to a lengthy delay, and unwanted publicity for Reuss and General Motors.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a21062427/the-corvette-zr1-pace-car-crashed-before-the-start-of-the-detroit-indycar-race/|title=The Corvette ZR1 Pace Car Crashed Before the Start of the Detroit IndyCar Race|date=3 June 2018|publisher=}}</ref> Reuss and passenger Mark Sandy were uninjured.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/motor/2018/06/03/general-motors-executive-mark-reuss-crashes-pace-car-detroit-grand-prix/667677002/|title=GM exec Mark Reuss crashes pace car at Detroit Grand Prix|publisher=}}</ref>

One year later, he got back in the Pace car for the 2019 Race 1 of the Grand Prix in hard rain – and led the field without incident. He also debuted the new Cadillac V-series at the race in full camo.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/mark-phelan/2019/06/06/2019-detroit-grand-prix-gm-president-mark-reuss/1349552001/|title=GM's Mark Reuss gives Grand Prix track another try. Here's what happened|first=Mark|last=Phelan|website=Detroit Free Press}}</ref> In 2020, he was the honorary pace car driver for the [[2020 Indianapolis 500|Indianapolis 500]].

In October 2024, Mark Reuss drove the 2025 [[Chevrolet Corvette ZR1]] to 233 mph, breaking the world record for the fastest production car under $1 million.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stevens |first=Tim |date=2025-03-06 |title=The Corvette ZR1’s 233-mph run had to start in a virtual world |url=https://www.theverge.com/chevrolet/624087/chevy-corvette-zr1-speed-record-simulation |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=The Verge |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Electric Corvette ==
On April 27, 2022, [[General Motors]] president Mark Reuss announced that it is developing "an electrified and a fully electric" version of its [[Chevrolet Corvette]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=AFP |date=2022-04-27 |title=GM to make electric Chevrolet |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1687021 |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=DAWN.COM |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.gm.com/company/corporate-officers/mark-reuss Mark Reuss profile at General Motors]

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