Karl Slym (died 2014) was the Managing Director of TATA Motors, India's largest automobile manufacturing company. Before joining Tata Motors, Slym was the executive vice president, SGMW Motors, China and president, managing director and board member of General Motors in India between 2007-11.

Slym died on 26th January 2014 in an unfortunate incident where he fell from a higher floor in a Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok, Thailand where he had gone to attend a meeting of the company's Thailand arm.