Ford and Lotus have new ceos

Posted on 02-05-2014 at 14:52 by ricardo – 8 Comments”

There are some people of chair changed in the automotive world. Ford took leave of Mulally, Lotus has finally found a successor for partyboy Bahar.

Ford made yesterday officially announced that Alan Mulally (68) away from the throne. It was already in the air that Mulally at Ford would leave. The man who, in 2006, Ford has made a clean sweep and managed to prevent the U.s. government bailout did, and the Blue Oval back to profitability brought, was named as successor to Steve Ballmer at Microsoft. But there is Satya Nadella now as a new CEO is appointed.

The successor of Mulally are Mark Fields (53). An American who for 25 years at Ford works and, inter alia, to the head of Mazda Motor Corporation was, when the Japanese still in the portfolio of Ford were. With 38 years he was the youngest Mazda-boss ever. In 2002 he was on the Premier Automotive Group, Ford’s luxedivisie which at the time consisted of Lincoln, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo. A crisis later, there is very little more about, but Ford sees in Fields yet the ideal successor. He is currently operations director at Ford.

Mulally (left) and Fields (right)

Lotus buy Luxemburger

Also Lotus has a new ceo. Two years ago, the sportautomerkje from England without a CEO after Dany Bahar the field had to clean up. He would have his booklet out to have gone to o.a. helicopter rides, expensive watches and exorbitant bonuses. About his megalomaniac plans of six (6!) conceptcars, not to mention.

In the meantime, Lotus ceo Aslam Farikullah the CEO functions, in the cut costs and the engineering to be maintained. He allowed that the tasks now entrusted to the Luxemburger Jean-Marc Gales (51). Gales has held earlier roles at Peugeot/Citroën, Daimler, Volkswagen, BMW and Opel. A veteran so. And on the eye pieces more seriously than Dany Bahar. Perhaps exactly what Lotus need. Owner Proton is, in any case, happy: “Jean-Marc will be able to drive the Lotus transformation plan and further enhance Lotus’ business and capabilities.”