Marcos Purty
Vice President, Global Quality, Supplier Quality & Operational Excellence
General Motors Company
UNCF Board of Directors
Marcos Purty was appointed Vice President, Global Quality, Supplier Quality & Operational Excellence for General Motors in May 2024. He is responsible for leading General Motors global quality efforts as well as leadership of the Operational Excellence group.
Prior to this position, Marcos was Vice President of Global Workplace Safety at GM, after returning from Amazon where he was Vice President, North America Fulfillment, Amazon Robotics Sortable Operations. Marcos and his team supported GM leadership in its mission to keep employees, contractors, and visitors safe at 363 sites worldwide.
Marcos joined GM in 1994 at the former Pontiac Assembly plant in Michigan and led his first international assignment in Canada at Oshawa Assembly in 2002. After returning to the U.S. in leadership roles at Pontiac Assembly and Fort Wayne Assembly in Indiana, Marcos went on to additional international assignments in Australia, Indonesia, and Thailand. In 2016, Marcos returned to the U.S. as Plant Executive Director at Lansing Delta Township Assembly in Michigan before his last assignment at GM as executive director, Global Manufacturing Strategy and Planning.
Marcos earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Florida A&M University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.
Marcos was recognized by the Career Communications Group with the 2020 Black Engineer of the Year Career Achievement Award and was a 2019 Michigan Chronicle Men of Excellence Honoree. In 2023, he was recognized as a DRIVEN nominee and featured in the 2023 DRIVEN publication, a Real Times Media program.
Marcos serves on the executive board of the Pontiac Kappa Foundation, which is a key pillar of his active support of community STEM initiatives. He is also on the board of Focus Hope, a non-profit community support organization in Detroit.