Lear Corporation Appoints Albert E. Billis President -ManufacturingOperations Division Southfield, Mich. (ots-PRNewswire) - Lear Corporation (NYSE:LEA)today announced the appointment of Albert E. Billis to SeniorVicePresident and President - Manufacturing Operations Division,reporting to Douglas D. DelGrosso, President - North AmericanOperations.(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990510/DEM040 ) In this new position, Billis is responsible for integratinganddirecting Lear's Interior Systems Group, Structural SystemsDivisionand the Interior Systems International business of newly acquiredUnited Technologies Automotive. Billis joined Lear in 1998 after more than 35 years at GeneralMotors Corporation, where he most recently served as generaldirectorof engineering for GM's Delphi Automotive Systems' Interior andLighting Systems division, a position he had held since November1991. Prior to that he served as director of the seat systemsbusiness unit and director of materials management and qualityassurance. Billis graduated from General Motors Institute (GMI, nowKetteringUniversity) with a bachelor of science degree in mechanicalengineering and earned a masters in business administration fromStanford University under the Sloan Fellowship Program. He and his wife Jane, who have four children, reside in LakeOrion, MI. Lear Corporation, a Fortune 200 company headquartered inSouthfield, Michigan, is the world's largest supplier ofautomotiveinteriors, with 1998 proforma sales of more than $12 billion. Thecompany's world-class products are designed, engineered andmanufactured by more than 100,000 employees in over 300facilitieslocated in 33 countries. Information about Lear and its productsisavailable on the Internet at http://www.lear.com.ots Original Text Service: Lear CorporationInternet: http://www.newsaktuell.deContact: Karen Stewart, Director - Corporate Communications ofLear,248-447-1651Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990510/DEM040 orNewsCom, 213-237-5431Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/518304.htmlorfax, 800-758-5804, ext. 518304Web site: http://www.lear.come-mail:

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