Kenneth A. "Ken" Levy is senior partner and president of international operations at AutoCom Associates.

Based in New York, he is responsible for the development of AutoCom's international automotive business as well as client services in Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Levy's public relations background also includes international management experience at DaimlerChrysler, General Motors and Ford. Fluent in German and able to converse in Italian, he began his career with Ford in 1977 as foreign press and information manager for Ford-Werke AG in Cologne, Germany.

He later joined GM as manager of European passenger-car press relations for Adam Opel AG in Ruesselsheim, Germany, and in 1986 was appointed director of news relations for General Motors Europe with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

Levy went on to serve as GM's executive director-International Operations and Media Relations with responsibility for public affairs activities in Europe, as well as Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

He joined DaimlerChrysler in 2000 at the company's North American headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich., as the Chrysler Group vice president responsible for all of Chrysler's internal, external and product communications. He left DaimlerChrysler at the end of 2003 to open a public relations consultancy in New York.

A native of New York City, Levy holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.