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Ford's Mulally adapts Ford's
global Organization
Additional Focus on Worldwide
Markets and Customers Improves Leverage of Global Assets and
Capabilities
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F)
President and CEO Alan Mulally today announced a realignment of
the company's organization that puts additional focus on its
worldwide markets and customers while better leveraging the
company's global assets and capabilities.
Alan Mulally - Photo: Ford
Reporting directly to Mulally
under the new structure are the company's three automotive
business unit leaders: Mark Fields, Ford of the Americas;
Lewis Booth, Ford of Europe and the Premier Automotive
Group; and John Parker, Ford of Asia Pacific and Africa,
and Mazda.
In support of the business units,
Derrick Kuzak will lead global product development, and
report to Mulally. He will also continue to be responsible for
product development for the Americas. J Mays continues to
lead Ford design and will support Kuzak.
Also now reporting to Mulally, and
similarly focused on using the company's global assets to better
support its automotive business units, are: Tony Brown,
purchasing; Bennie Fowler, quality and advanced
manufacturing engineering; Nick Smither, information
technology; and Richard Parry-Jones, chief technical
officer. Mulally's other direct reports remain unchanged.
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