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SPOTLIGHT Henniges names Williams permanent CEO
Henniges Automotive Inc. on Tuesday named Larry Williams permanent CEO of the Auburn Hillsbased supplier after serving in the role on an interim basis for more than two years. Williams was named as the interim CEO replacement for outWilliams going executive Doug DelGrosso in 2016 when he left to become the CEO of Chassix Holdings Inc. DelGrosso became the president and CEO of Plymouth-based Adient plc in October 2018. Williams will continue his role as a board director and president of the company, which he’s held since January 2016. He previously held the title of CFO between 2007 and April 2018 and had served as Henniges’ interim CEO between November 2011 and July 2012 until the company hired DelGrosso. He joined Henniges as vice president of finance in 2003. He previously served in executive finance roles for Metzeler Automotive and GenCorp. “When I joined Henniges in 2003, I quickly found a passion for the company; I’m proud of the success we’ve achieved throughout my tenure and am thrilled to take on this new leadership role,” Williams said in a news release. “As CEO, I look forward to further amplifying Henniges’ position as a leading automotive sealing and anti-vibration solutions provider.” Williams earned an MBA from Butler University in Indiana and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Central Michigan University.
Henniges is the 85th largest global automotive supplier with revenue of $994 million in 2017, according to Automotive News’ Top Suppliers report.
Integrated Design Solutions names new president
Integrated Design Solutions LLC, an architectural and engineering firm based in Troy, has swapped leadership as longtime president Paul Stachowiak steps down. Stachowiak, 64, will continue as chairman as Charles Lewis, 55, transitions to the Lewis role of president, according to a news release. The changes were approved March 20 at the annual board meeting. Stachowiak has been president and chairman since Integrated Design Solutions’ founding in 1999. This year is his last as a full-time member of the company. He plans to stay on in a more limited capacity through spring 2021 or 2022 to help mentor new leadership and transition client relations before retiring, he said. Integrated Design Solutions’ current projects include designing the 8,000-square-foot lobby of the Ford Building in downtown Detroit. It has also worked with Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, the University of Notre Dame, Romeo Community Schools in Macomb County and the University of Detroit Mercy and contributed to the $45 million renovation of United Shore Financial Services LLC’s new headquarters in Pontiac.
Detroit News editor and publisher Jonathan Wolman dies at 68 By Chad Livengood clivengood@crain.com
Jonathan Wolman, the editor and publisher of The Detroit News who helmed the newspaper during a tumultuous economic upheaval for the news business, died April 15 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, The News reported. He was 68. Wolman’s 12 years as the top executive at The News capped a career spanning five decades working in newsrooms from Detroit to Denver and Washington, D.C., where he directed coverage of Congress and four U.S. presidents for the Associated Press wire service. “Jon was not only a giant in the journalism world and a thought leader here in Detroit and beyond, but also a wonderful human being,” said retired federal judge Gerald Rosen, who has been Wolman’s neighbor in Franklin for 12 years. “His dry, sometimes irreverent wit and deep insights about people and the world around him complemented a warm, caring and compassionate soul.” At The News, Wolman maintained the paper’s commitment to operating two bureaus in Lansing and Washington at a time when metropolitan newspapers across the country were closing Capitol bureaus and reducing coverage of the state and federal government. “No paper of The Detroit News’ size has had such a commitment to Washington journalism than Jon Wolman’s Detroit News,” said David Shepardson, the former Washington bureau chief for The News. “There was no better example of that decision than during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 when the fate of the domestic automotive industry was
Jonathan Wolman was the editor and publisher of The Detroit News.
being decided in Washington.” Under Wolman’s leadership, Shepardson and The Detroit News’ Washington bureau reporters won a prestigious Gerald Loeb Award in 2010 for their coverage of the 2009 federal bailout and bankruptcy reorganization of General Motors and Chrysler Group. Wolman managed The News during a period of continuous decline for Detroit’s daily newspapers, which share business operations through a joint operating agreement but maintain separate newsrooms. Both The News and Detroit Free Press have shed dozens of newsroom jobs over the past decade through early retirement buyouts, attrition and layoffs. Wolman’s stewardship of The News began two years after Gannett
Co. Inc. sold the newspaper to Denver-based newspaper chain MediaNews for $25 million in stock, a maneuver that allowed Gannett to buy the rival Detroit Free Press from Knight Ridder for $262 million. MediaNews subsequently was bought by New York City-based hedge fund Alden Global Capital, but The News was left largely outside of its new owner’s downsizing of its newspaper newsroom ranks because of the JOA with Gannett and because of collective bargaining agreements. Gannett owns 95 percent of the JOA partnership. As a local media leader, Wolman was a “dedicated” member of the board of directors of the Detroit Economic Club, President and CEO Steve Grigorian said. “You could always count on and look forward to hearing Jon’s own thought leadership on the speaker’s topic and speech after the meeting,” Grigorian said. “He will be sorely missed.” Wolman spent 31 years with the AP, starting as a reporter in 1973 in Madison, Wis., and then Detroit, later working his way up the ranks of the news cooperative’s Washington bureau, where he became an assistant bureau chief in 1984 and bureau chief in 1989. In 2000, he became executive editor of the AP. Wolman is survived by his wife, Deborah Lamm, and their three adult children, Jacob, Emma and Sophia. Memorial donations may be made to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism and Jewish Family Services of Metro Detroit. — Crain's Senior Reporter Bill Shea contributed to this report.
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