Alicia Boler Davis

Alicia Boler Davis is Vice President of Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon.

Early life and education 
Boler Davis spent her childhood fixing broken items in her home, where she grew up with her mother Denise and 3 siblings. She attended a high school program at the General Motors Institute and she decided she wanted to work there. She completed her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at Northwestern University. She was the first generation of her family to attend college, following her sister Kimberly Boler who studied at Harvard University and became an attorney. She followed this with a master's degree in engineering science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She completed a master's in business administration at Indiana University.

Career 
In 1994 Boler Davis joined General Motors as a manufacturing engineer. She was plant manager at the Michigan Orion Assembly facility. She was the first black woman to become a plant manager. She simultaneously led the plant at Pontiac Stamping.

She was appointed Vice President of Customer Experience at General Motors in 2012. She was promoted to Senior Vice President for Global Customer Experience in 2013. She was part of the Forbes Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit in 2014. That year she spoke at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. She was promoted to Executive Vice President of global manufacturing in 2016 and leads 180,000 employees. Since 2016 she has served on the board of directors at General Mills. She joined the board of Beaumont Health in 2017.

In 2018 Boler Davis became the six woman to be named Black Engineer of the Year. She has championed and mentored women in the automotive industry, and serves as the Executive Liaison for the GM WOMEN leadership board.

Awards and honours 
2018 US Black Engineer Magazine Black Engineer of the Year

2018 Business Insider Most Powerful Female Engineers in the World

2017 Automotive News All Star in Manufacturing

2016 Trumpet Awards Corporate Executive of the Year

2014 Women of Color Magazine Technologist of the Year

2013 Fortune magazine Top 10 most powerful women in the automotive industry

2011 Michigan Chronicle Woman of Excellence

2010 Automotive News 100 Leading Women in the North American Automotive Industry

In February Ms. Davis Joined Amazon

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