Veteran journalist Gillies takes job as VW product and technology communications manager

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Former Car and Driver executive editor and veteran automotive journalist Mark Gillies has signed on with the Volkswagen PR machine as product and technology communications manager. Gillies spent 28 years making the rounds among automotive publications, working as an editor at David E. Davis, Jr.'s Automobile Magazine, and churning out copy for England's CAR and Autocar. Gillies also spent time hunting down stories for AutoWeek and Classic & Sportscar.

Inhis new role at Volkswagen, the former scoop will report to Scott Vazin, the company's newly-hired vice president for public relations formerly from Nissan.As a former journo, Gillies will be shouldered with helping to promote new VW products and technologies.

Gillies' new boss has been working in the automotive PR business for more than 20 years, getting his start at Mitsubishi in 1990. From there, he moved on to a job at Nissan, finishing his time there as general manager of Corporate and Public Communications in Europe.

Vazin starts his new job on April 18, followed by Gillies on May 1.

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