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Ford Motors
COMPANY
Automobile manufacturer, founded 16-Jun-1903 by Henry Ford. The company's other auto brands include Lincoln, Mercury, and Volvo, and Ford also maintains a minority interest in automakers Aston Martin and Mazda. Other subsidiaries include The Hertz Corporation, Ford Motor Credit Company, and Motorcraft auto parts. In 2008, Ford sold the Jaguar and Land Rover nameplates to Tata Group. In 2010, Ford announced the pending sale of Volvo to Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group.
Official Website:
http://www.ford.com/
Industry:
Automobile
Ticker:
NYSE:F
Corporate headquarters:
Dearborn, MI
Sales:
$164B (2003)
Employees:
327000 (2003)
EXECUTIVES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| William P. Benton |
Business |
4-Nov-1923 |
19-Feb-2009 |
Former VP at Ford |
| Gina Boswell |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
Senior Alberto-Culver executive |
| Deborah S. Coleman |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
International Business Solutions |
| James J. Couzens |
Politician |
26-Aug-1872 |
22-Oct-1936 |
US Senator from Michigan, 1922-36 |
| John M. Devine |
Business |
13-May-1944 |
|
Vice Chairman of GM, 2001-06 |
| William H. Fike |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Vice Chairman, Magna International, 1994-99 |
| Edsel Ford |
Business |
6-Nov-1893 |
26-May-1943 |
President of Ford, 1919-43 |
| Edsel B. Ford II |
Business |
27-Dec-1948 |
|
VP, Ford Motors |
| Henry Ford II |
Business |
4-Sep-1917 |
29-Sep-1987 |
Former President, CEO of Ford |
| Henry Ford |
Business |
30-Jul-1863 |
7-Apr-1947 |
Founder of Ford Motors |
| William Clay Ford, Jr. |
Business |
3-May-1957 |
|
CEO of Ford, 2001-06 |
| William Clay Ford, Sr. |
Business |
14-Mar-1925 |
|
Ford exec and owner of the Detroit Lions |
| Allan D. Gilmour |
Business |
1934 |
|
Twice Vice Chairman of Ford |
| Louise K. Goeser |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Ford Mexico |
| Ronald E. Goldsberry |
Business |
12-Sep-1942 |
|
Former VP, Ford |
| Edward E. Hagenlocker |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Vice Chairman of Ford, 1996-99 |
| Michael N. Hammes |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Sunrise Medical |
| Steven K. Hamp |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
President, The Henry Ford, 1996-2005 |
| Earl J. Hesterberg |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Group 1 Automotive |
| Lee Iacocca |
Business |
15-Oct-1924 |
|
Former chairman, Chrysler Corporation |
| Louis E. Lataif |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
Management Dean, Boston University |
| Kathleen Ligocki |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of Tower Automotive, 2003-07 |
| Frank E. Macher |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Former CEO of Collins & Aikman, Federal Mogul |
| David N. McCammon |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
VP and Treasurer of Ford, 1987-97 |
| Robert McNamara |
Government |
9-Jun-1916 |
6-Jul-2009 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68 |
| Robert S. Miller |
Business |
4-Nov-1941 |
|
CEO of Delphi, 2005-07 |
| Judith A. Muhlberg |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Public relations consultant, Gagen MacDonald |
| Alan Mulally |
Business |
4-Aug-1945 |
|
CEO of Ford Motor Company |
| Antonio M. Neto |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
President, Ford South America Operations |
| William Niskanen |
Administrator |
13-Mar-1933 |
26-Oct-2011 |
Chairman of the Cato Institute |
| Carl E. Reichardt |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of Wells Fargo Bank, 1983-94 |
| Robert L. Rewey |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Former VP Marketing at Ford |
| Kenneth L. Rose |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Henkels & McCoy |
| Marvin Runyon |
Government |
16-Sep-1924 |
3-May-2004 |
US Postmaster General, 1992-98 |
| Mark A. Schulz |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Former Ford International EVP |
| Greg C. Smith |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Vice Chairman of Ford, 2005-06 |
| Anne Stevens |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Carpenter Technology |
| Henry D. G. Wallace |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CFO of Ford Motor, 2000-01 |
| Kenneth Whipple |
Business |
1934 |
|
Retired Ford Motor executive |
CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Stephen G. Butler |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of KPMG, 1996-2002 |
| Kimberly A. Casiano |
Business |
21-Dec-1957 |
|
President of Casiano Communications, 1994-2009 |
| Anthony F. Earley, Jr. |
Business |
29-Jul-1949 |
|
CEO of DTE Energy |
| Edsel B. Ford II |
Business |
27-Dec-1948 |
|
VP, Ford Motors |
| William Clay Ford, Jr. |
Business |
3-May-1957 |
|
CEO of Ford, 2001-06 |
| Dick Gephardt |
Politician |
31-Jan-1941 |
|
Congressman from Missouri, 1977-2005 |
| Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. |
Business |
12-Aug-1936 |
|
CEO of Hallmark, 1986-2001 |
| Richard A. Manoogian |
Business |
1936 |
|
CEO of Masco, 1985-2007 |
| Ellen R. Marram |
Business |
1947 |
|
CEO of Tropicana, 1997-98 |
| Alan Mulally |
Business |
4-Aug-1945 |
|
CEO of Ford Motor Company |
| Homer A. Neal |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1942 |
|
Director of the ATLAS Project |
| Gerald L. Shaheen |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Group President, Caterpillar Inc. |
| John L. Thornton |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
President of Goldman Sachs, 1999-2003 |
PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John R. H. Bond |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Chairman, HSBC Holdings, 1998-2004 |
| John Connally |
Politician |
27-Feb-1917 |
15-Jun-1993 |
Governor of Texas, 1963-69 |
| Henry Ford II |
Business |
4-Sep-1917 |
29-Sep-1987 |
Former President, CEO of Ford |
| William Clay Ford, Sr. |
Business |
14-Mar-1925 |
|
Ford exec and owner of the Detroit Lions |
| Allan D. Gilmour |
Business |
1934 |
|
Twice Vice Chairman of Ford |
| Roberto C. Goizueta |
Business |
18-Nov-1931 |
18-Oct-1997 |
CEO of Coca-Cola, 1981-97 |
| Marie-Josée Kravis |
Economist |
11-Sep-1949 |
|
President of MoMA |
| Drew Lewis |
Government |
3-Nov-1931 |
|
US Secretary of Transportation, 1981-83 |
| Robert McNamara |
Government |
9-Jun-1916 |
6-Jul-2009 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68 |
| Jorma Ollila |
Business |
15-Aug-1950 |
|
CEO of Nokia, 1992-2006 |
| Ken Olsen |
Business |
20-Feb-1925 |
6-Feb-2011 |
Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Carl E. Reichardt |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of Wells Fargo Bank, 1983-94 |
| John L. Weinberg |
Business |
25-Jan-1925 |
7-Aug-2006 |
Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 1976-90 |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. |
Business |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92 |
NOTABLE EMPLOYEES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Jerald F. ter Horst |
Government |
11-Jul-1922 |
31-Mar-2010 |
Gerald Ford's short-term press secretary |
EMPLOYMENT
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| José Maria Alapont |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Federal-Mogul |
| Paul M. Anderson |
Business |
1945 |
|
CEO of Duke Energy, 2003-07 |
| Wayne A. Budd |
Attorney |
18-Nov-1941 |
|
Partner, Goodwin Procter |
| Dennis E. Clements |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Group VP at Toyota, 2000-05 |
| Gary L. Convis |
Business |
22-Sep-1942 |
|
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky |
| James C. Cotting |
Business |
c. 1933 |
|
CEO of Navistar International, 1987-95 |
| Erroll B. Davis, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Chancellor, University System of Georgia |
| John Demjanjuk |
Criminal |
3-Apr-1920 |
17-Mar-2012 |
Retired auto worker convicted for Nazi past |
| Thomas G. Denomme |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Vice Chairman of Chrysler, 1994-97 |
| Cyrus F. Freidheim |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
CEO of Sun Times Media Group, 2006-09 |
| Linda A. Goodspeed |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
Former EVP, Lennox International |
| Gerald Greenwald |
Business |
11-Sep-1935 |
|
CEO of United Air Lines, 1994-99 |
| Chuck Hansen |
Activist |
13-May-1947 |
26-Mar-2003 |
Nuclear historian and archivist |
| William H. Hernandez |
Business |
1948 |
|
CFO of PPG Industries |
| Jeffrey R. Immelt |
Business |
19-Feb-1956 |
|
CEO of General Electric |
| Raymond M. Kethledge |
Judge |
11-Dec-1966 |
|
6th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Eddie Long |
Religion |
12-May-1953 |
|
Georgia Baptist minister |
| Matthew E. Massengill |
Business |
12-Apr-1961 |
|
CEO of Western Digital, 2000-05 |
| Charles G. McClure |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of ArvinMeritor |
| Richard T. McCormack |
Diplomat |
6-Mar-1941 |
|
US Ambassador to the OAS, 1985-89 |
| Woodrow A. Myers, Jr. |
Doctor |
14-Feb-1954 |
|
EVP at Wellpoint, 2000-05 |
| Grace Napolitano |
Politician |
4-Dec-1936 |
|
Congresswoman, California 38th |
| Anne Northup |
Politician |
22-Jan-1948 |
|
Congresswoman from Kentucky, 1997-2007 |
| Jerry K. Pearlman |
Business |
27-Mar-1939 |
|
CEO of Zenith Electronics, 1983-95 |
| Gilbert Plass |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1922 |
1-Mar-2004 |
Climate change scientist |
| Nick Rose |
Business |
Oct-1957 |
|
CFO of Diageo |
| Wayne R. Sanders |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Kimberly-Clark, 1991-2002 |
| Gregg M. Sherrill |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Tenneco |
| Bruce A. Smith |
Business |
12-Oct-1943 |
|
CEO of Tesoro |
| Thomas T. Stallkamp |
Business |
6-Sep-1946 |
|
CEO of MSX International, 2000-03 |
| Larry D. Thompson |
Attorney |
15-Nov-1945 |
|
General Counsel of Pepsi |
| Frederick C. Yeager |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Senior VP Finance, Time Warner |
| Kenneth F. Yontz |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Sybron, 1986-2000 |
| Sam H. Zakhem |
Diplomat |
25-Nov-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Bahrain, 1986-89 |
EXTRANEOUS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Vern Buchanan |
Politician |
8-May-1951 |
|
Congressman, Florida 13th |
| W. Edwards Deming |
Mathematician |
14-Oct-1900 |
20-Dec-1993 |
Quality Control guru |
| C. Robert Kidder |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Borden Chemical, 1995-2002 |
| James M. Moran |
Business |
8-Aug-1918 |
24-Apr-2007 |
JM Family Enterprises |
| Brendan O'Neill |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Imperial Chemical Industries, 1999-2003 |
| Jackie Stewart |
Auto Racing |
11-Jun-1939 |
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Three time Formula-1 world champion |
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