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FeatureExecutives on the move
Timothy Nickel has left tier one supplier Visteon in the US to join packaging supply chain expert and container pooling solutions company Surgere as vice president of operations. Nickel has had a 15-year career in the packaging industry, starting as a packaging engineer at Ford in 1997, before moving to ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Carl-Johan Hagman has stepped down as CEO of Höegh Autoliners and been replaced by Ingmar Skiaker, previously chief operating officer. Hagman, who has left for personal reasons, is relocating to Sweden and will join the Stena Group but will also continue his association with Höegh Autolliners as a non-executive director. ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Harry Doms has left electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors where he was logistics director of EMEA and APAC to take up a new position outside the automotive industry. Roy Kimber, Tesla's senior logistics manager, has now taken over responsibility for Europe. Doms' departure follows the news earlier in the year ...
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FeatureIn Profile: Christine Kratwohl
Christine Krathwohl brings 18 years of logistics and purchasing experience to the top logistics position at GM. She spent eight-and-a-half years at Ford and Visteon before joining GM in 2002, where she has held numerous positions in North America, including as logistics business planning manager and director of inbound logistics, ...
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FeatureIn Profile: Evelyn Chiang, Tesla
Evelyn Chiang’s first taste of logistics was when she was 13, virtually penniless, and supporting her family. Today she is the vice president of supply chain and IT at EV-maker Tesla Motors.
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FeatureExecutives on the move
John Pasha has taken the position of senior vice president responsible for The Pasha Group’s Automotive Processing Division. Pasha, who is grandson of the company’s founder George W. Pasha Jr, will bring more than 15 years of experience across its divisions, including more than five years acting as vice ...
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FeatureSurprise departures as Fiat reorganises
The widespread organisational changes at Fiat that were announced at the end of July have now taken effect and not without some surprise departures from the supply chain and commercial departments, namely Paola Petrone (pictured left), who was senior vice president of Supply Chain Management, and Andrea Formica (pictured right), ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Sean Liang is the new director of Global Purchasing and Supply Chain for GM China replacing Michael Filazzola, who has moved to a new position as executive director of GPSC for GM Holden in Australia, the position previously occupied by Liang. Liang will be responsible for the Purchasing organisation’s business ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has announced two appointments to its global executive management team in the Americas. John Felitto has now taken on the role of president and CEO of WWL Vehicle Services Americas. Felitto, who joined the company more than 10 years ago, has been operating in this role as ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Greg May, president of US finished vehicle carrier, Jack Cooper Transport, is to leave the company at the end of August. He will remain involved with the company as a consultant and continues in his role as vice chairman of subsidiary Jack Cooper Logistics. May has not announced what his ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Following last month’s logistics management shakeup at General Motors it has been confirmed that Andreas Graffe will replace Jeff Morrison as director of logistics for Opel/Vauxhall in Europe. Graffe, who is currently purchasing director at Shanghai GM, will move over to the new role next month. Morrison moves back to ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has announced two appointments to its global executive management team. Christopher J. Connor has been named chief commercial officer for the company’s global organization and will assume the CCO role while continuing as deputy CEO of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics AS. Connor will work closely with Oslo-based ...
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FeatureIndustry mourns passing of 'a true gentleman'
It was with great sadness that Automotive Logistics learned of the death last weekend of Heinrich-Wilhelm Averwerser, managing director at BLG Automobile Logistics. Mr Averwerser was 39 and passed away after a short but very serious illness. “We are missing a competent and engaged, as well as an always-reliable and ...
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FeatureGM shakes up logistics leadership
The beginning of June has seen some major shifts in logistics management at General Motors. Christine Krathwohl, who was until last week director of Global Purchasing and Corporate Administrative Services/Vehicle Sales, Service and Marketing (VSSM), has now replaced Dale Kitchen as executive director, Global Logistics & Containers. Krathwohl will report ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
As part of a wide-ranging shake up of management positions at Renault-Nissan, Christian Madrus has been appointed the new managing director at the Renault-Nissan Alliance, effective June 1st. Madrus, who has been managing director of Global Alliance Logistics since June 2009, replaces Mouna Sephehri, one of the founding members of ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has appointed Xavier Leroi as its new managing director in China. Leroi moves from his position as head of WWL South Africa and will now be based in Shanghai with responsibility for driving all growth in China.“The Chinese market has enormous potential, in terms of import ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA) has appointed Kazuhiro Miyauchi its executive vice president of purchasing, production control and logistics control. He moves from Toyota Motor Corporation’s purchasing project management and unit parts division but will retain his position there as managing officer in addition to his new ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Julie Krehbiel has resigned as vice president and general manager – Automotive, from US rail provider Union Pacific. The company said she had left for “personal reasons”. No further details were made available. Krehbiel has been replaced by Linda Brandl, who moves from her position as vice president of the ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Dr Ernst-Hermann Krog has retired from his position as head of brand logistics at Audi and been replaced by Dr Michael Hauf, who moves from his position as head of Plant Planning at the carmaker. Krog has been with the VW Group since 1980 in a variety of roles including ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
As part of a number of management changes taking place at Hoëgh Autoliners over the next few months, as of April, Ingar Skiaker has been appointed chief operating officer, based in Oslo, Norway while Steinar Løvdal is the new president of Höegh Autoliners Inc. based in Jericho, New York. Ingar ...