COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Billye Aaron was reliving memories of her late husband Henry “Hank” Aaron with an audience of friends and admirers. She grew emotional at times, pausing at moments to ...

Ed Welburn, the quiet architect of General Motors' design renaissance the past decade and a leader credited with knocking racial and social barriers in corporate America, announced plans to retire ...

Ed Welburn may be stepping down from his position as the global head of GM Design in July, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to sit around and bask in his past successes. Instead, the 65-year ...

Ed Welburn, vice president of General Motors Global Design, told employees today he will retire effective July 1, following a 44-year career with the company. Welburn, 65, has been celebrated ...

DETROIT -- Ed Welburn, General Motors’ debonair head of global design who radically transformed the look of the automaker’s car and truck lineup, is retiring effective July 1. He will be ...

WARREN, Mich. — During a visit to the Philadelphia Auto Show, 9-year-old Ed Welburn was spellbound by the 1959 Cadillac Cyclone, with its big fins and rocket-like front cones. Then and there ...

As chief of the Olds studio, Welburn presided over several generations of Cutlasses. Subsequent assignments at Saturn and GM's Russelsheim Germany studios led to his 1998 promotion to executive ...

General Motors former vice president of design Ed Welburn was honored by Detroit’s College for Creative Studies with a Doctorate of Fine Arts honoris causa. The honorary doctorate degree comes ...

DETROIT -- The Camaro concept unveiled by General Motors at the Detroit auto show clearly gets design chief Ed Welburn's blood pumping. It didn't take much reading between the lines of his remarks ...

Among the many talented automotive designers to work for General Motors, Edward T. Welburn is undoubtedly one of the greats. With a career at GM that spans more than four decades, Welburn ...