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KIM BRINK
COO | Team Detroit/Blue Hive | Dearborn, Mich. | Age: 49 | Education: B.S. and MBA, marketing, Wayne State University
-- What attracted you to the auto industry? One of my professors was doing consulting work for Chevy. What attracted me was more the research side of it than the car itself or the truck itself. But once you get in the industry, you almost get addicted to it.
-- First automotive job: Market research analyst at Chevrolet in 1989
-- Big break: I had really two big breaks. One was the opportunity to work as the ad manager on Chevy trucks, on the "Like a Rock" campaign. That got me into the advertising arena. But probably the biggest break was when I was given the opportunity -- I was probably only 32 -- to run all of the advertising and sales promotion for Cadillac in 1999. I went from a manager level to an executive level.
-- What is the major challenge you've faced in your career? Persevering through the General Motors bankruptcy. That was a very, very dark...