Head of Georgia Kia Plant Dies on Business Trip; was Macon Native
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
The head of the Kia manufacturing plant in west Georgia, a Macon native and well-known business leader across the region, died Friday while on a business trip, according to published reports.
J. Randy Jackson, a company vice president with nearly four decades of experience in the automobile industry, may have suffered a heart attack while on board a plane at the Seattle airport, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which confirmed Jackson’s death Saturday.
