, Farley made his bones at Toyota, at one point running the Lexus luxury brand. He came to Ford in 2007 and rose to become its chief operating officer, functioning as a sort of shadow CEO for Hackett.
China, in particular, has been on her mind for a while. "China is going to be the largest market, for certain," she told Business Insider in 2018.Bill Ford, great-grandson of founder Henry Ford, was once CEO of his family's company. And although he stepped aside — wisely, as it turned out — to bring former Boeing executive Alan Mulally onboard before the financial crisis, he's always stayed in the picture.
Galhotra has moved from major role to major role at Ford. In his current job, he oversees the ups and downs of everything Ford does, from passenger cars and trucks to commercial vehicles. He's on the front lines of where Ford is making and losing money. Bill Ford always got it and felt strongly that Hackett had put the company on the right track. Wall Street was less patient, but Farley developed a great respect for Hackett's approach.
Harris hasn't always been Ford's in-house banker. He also served as vice president of the company's Mobility Business Group. There, he "was responsible for the connected services businesses of Ford Commercial Solutions," among other responsibilities. In an interview with Business Insider in 2018, LaNeve said, "We've been seeing the trends coming on for a while, but it's been accelerating."
From 2012 to 2016, he ran Ford's China operations, as the automaker tried to catch up with more established players in the region — GM and the VW Group, mainly — and set itself up to capture its share of growth in what experts think could be the largest auto market on the planet, more than double the size of the US.
As the carmaker's European chief, he has one of the hardest jobs in the business. Ford has been in Europe for decades, but the market there has long been flat, with most of Ford's profits coming from the US and lucrative pickup and SUV sales.