GM Chief Marketing Officer to Step Down

The GM logo is seen at the General Motors plant in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, on Jan. 22, 2019. Roosevelt Cassio/Reuters

General Motors said on Tuesday its global chief marketing officer Deborah Wahl had decided to retire effective March 31.

The Detroit automaker is one of the largest U.S. advertisers spending $3.3 billion in 2021 on advertising and promotions, according to its annual report. Wahl, a former chief marketing officer at McDonalds who held marketing jobs at a number of automakers, assumed her current role at GM in 2019.