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Auto analyst and investment banker John Casesa joins Ford as group
vice president, Global Strategy
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Casesa will lead a team focused on enhancing existing business
strategies and identifying and evaluating new opportunities for
profitable growth
Company Website:
http://corporate.ford.com/
DEARBORN, Mich. -- (Business Wire)
Ford Motor Company today announces the hiring of long-time auto analyst
and investment banker John Casesa as group vice president, Global
Strategy as part of the company’s commitment to accelerate its One Ford
plan, deliver product excellence and drive innovation in every part of
the business.
Reporting to Ford President and CEO Mark Fields, Casesa, 52, will be the
most senior leader and corporate officer overseeing global strategy and
business development. The appointment is effective March 1, 2015.
Casesa will work with the company’s business unit and skill team leaders
to enhance existing business strategies and to identify and evaluate new
opportunities leading to profitable growth. His work will be integrated
into Ford’s current process for driving results, which includes
constantly understanding the changing environment and continuously
improving its plans.
“Ford is a growth company in a dramatically growing global industry. It
is more important than ever that we operate with a focus on delivering
today’s business and an equal focus on anticipating and meeting the
needs of customers five, 10 and 15 years down the road,” said Fields.
“John knows business and the auto industry inside and out. His deep
experience and relationships will help guide and shape our global
strategies – particularly as we challenge today’s business model and
push to innovate to make us even stronger tomorrow.”
Casesa will lead the company’s strategic planning globally. This
includes helping to steer the company’s investments in new products,
technologies and business models supporting a focus on innovation and Ford
Smart Mobility.
Before joining Ford, Casesa was senior managing director of Guggenheim
Partners, where he led the firm’s automotive investment banking
activities. In this role since 2010, he advised many of the auto
industry’s leading companies and investors on strategic transactions.
Prior to Guggenheim, he spent nearly 20 years as a leading automotive
analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. and Schroders PLC. He also served as a
product planning analyst at General Motors and was a co-owner of
domestic and import auto dealerships in the U.S. northeast region.
His thought-leading research during two decades changed the way
investors understood many aspects of the auto industry. In 1991, for
example, he created the “Car Wars” report, which remains a benchmark for
measuring automaker product competitiveness. In 2000, his “Who Makes the
Car” report presented a new framework for understanding suppliers. In
2005, with World Resources Institute he co-authored “Energy Security &
Climate Change” which foretold the clean car revolution.
Casesa was ranked as an All-Star eleven times by Institutional Investor
magazine. He helped write the New York Stock Exchange’s qualifying exam
for analysts (Series 86) as a founding member of the Exchange’s Research
Analyst Qualification Exam Committee, and he was a member of the
Financial Accounting Standards Board’s User Advisor Council.
For biographical information and photos of John Casesa, click
here.
About Ford Motor Company
Ford
Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in
Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six
continents. With about 187,000 employees and 62 plants worldwide, the
company’s automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The company
provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more
information regarding Ford and its products worldwide, please visit www.corporate.ford.com.
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Source: Ford Motor Company
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